guardian, protector:
(
MS: s.xii4/4
)
Mielz valt un bon guardeor que set malvais atraieor
Prov vil 9.186
(
c.1188-95;
MS: s.xii4/4
)
(Cain’s reply to God when he’s asked what he has done with his brother:) ‘Ne me fud cumanded, ne jo n’en sui gardere’
Creation 267.128
(
1215;
MS: 1226
)
[L]es gardeors de la terre de tel heir qui sera dedenz aage, ne pregne de la terre de l’eir fors reignables eissues e [...]
Magna Carta 357.4
(
s.xiii1;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
Li rois Annes
(=King of the East Anglians between 635 and 653/654) [...] Ja soit ice que il fuist reis D’Engleterre sur les Engleis [...] Del regne fu leaus garderes Et as orphanins fu bon peres
S Audree1 517
♦
body-guard :
(
MS: s.xivm
)
Sophonias ly gardour & conissour de les privetees de nostre sire
S Jer 3vb
♦
mil.guard, sentinel:
(
c.1136-37;
MS: s.xiiex
)
Uns hom qui amenot peissuns As gardeurs
(var. (H: s.xiv1/4) gardeins) lunc le mareis Fist qe prodom e que curteis
GAIMAR1 5499
gardeur (c.1136-37)