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单词 wardhouse
释义

wardhousen.

Forms: Also 1600s Scottish waird-.
Etymology: < ward n.2 + house n.1
Obsolete.
1. (the) Wardhouse: used to render Norwegian Vardøhuus, the name of a fortress situated on the island of Vardö, off the NE. coast of Norway.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fort or fortified town > [noun] > specific fort
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1557 A. Jenkinson in R. Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 334 Being at this North Cape the 2. day of July, we had [etc.]... The 3. day we came to Wardhouse.
1589 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations ii. 295 Articles..determined for the Commission of the Merchants of this company resiant in Russia, and at the Wardhouse, for the second voiage.
1615 R. Keale Trades Increase 4 Whereas the Hollander..betweene the Warde-house and the East-ward, at Tippenie, Kilden, Olena,..and at Saint Nicholas in Russia, had aboue thirty fiue sailes of their Shippes the last yeare.
2. A guardhouse for prisoners. Scottish.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fort or fortified town > [noun] > specific fort
Wardhouse1557
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > guardhouse
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guard-house1592
vaughouse1616
guard1714
guard-room1826
1590 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. IV. 538 Ane sufficient wardhous for prisonaris.
1611 Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887) I. 127 The lettres..concerning prissones and wairdhoussis.
1618 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 357 Thomas Watsoune, maister measone to the bigging of the wardhous.
3. ? A post or station of a military guard.
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society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > [noun] > watch-post > guardhouse
corps de garde1587
guard-house1592
court of guarda1616
wardhousea1643
a1643 J. Burroughs Sovereignty Brit. Seas (1651) 83 The King of Denmarke at his Wardhouse in the Sound, hath for a Licence a Doller.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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