(n.) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will.
Example Sentences:
(1) He told me they had a particularly vicious warder called Van Rensburg who displayed a swastika on his arm.
(2) Meanwhile Huhne, who is in Wandsworth prison, was ridiculed on his first day in jail when a warder called him to breakfast shouting: "Order!
(3) Many institutions that appeared to have emerged autonomously, such Index on Censorship, the Butler Trust for prison warders, or the Minority Rights Group, were the fruits of David's seed.
(4) As for giving prisoners "support", I wouldn't like to be the warder offering a stick of nicotine gum to a con he's just divested of 20 full-strength Marlboros.
(5) According to Fahmy, warders laughed off his injury, telling him "it's OK because I'm a journalist and I only need to type.
(6) They used to have a tradition: each warder would select a prisoner who was their "handy boy" who would carry their flask and their lunchbox.
(7) The first show concentrated on the growth of the tripe industry during the first world war, and the actor Philip Jackson claimed a place in the Guinness Book of Records, as it was then known, for playing 22 characters, including a prison warder, King George V, a sausage dealer, the Salford Ripper and Baron von Richthoven.
(8) Two yeoman warders in medieval tunics, who had come from London with the constable of the Tower of London, Lord Dannatt, stood with their backs to the south door of the cathedral, as if the Tudors or Lancastrians might try to break in at any moment.
(9) All it needs is a warder outside with a mobile phone to call the inside staff and say: “It’s the end cell on The Twos” or whatever and it stops.
(10) Yet their son said that despite the grim conditions, he has not seen any evidence of mistreatment, and both of his parents have befriended their warders.
(11) This is why they [warders] very casually beat people up.
(12) We were locked up in cells with a window to the corridor, but two panes were removed so we could talk to the warder.
(13) To determine whether Sertoli cells and gonocytes are functionally coupled in the cocultures, we used the glass bead-loading technique of McNeil and Warder to introduce Lucifer yellow (LY), a gap junction-permeant probe, and Rhodamine-dextran (RD), a larger marker excluded by gap junctions, simultaneously into cultures 24 h after plating.
(14) When Greyson and Loubani arrived at Tora, warders purposely left the three-dozen men inside the cramped truck, so that they might overheat in the blazing Cairo sun.
(15) As the judge told the court warder to take him down, Illsley gave a small wave to his supporter, picked up his coat and holdall and headed for the cells.
(16) Many years later, in 1995, Mandela – delivering the first annual lecture in memory of the Communist party leader Bram Fischer, who was his defence counsel at Rivonia – drew roars of laughter by recalling his dismay when he sought comfort from a friendly warder on the eve of sentencing.
(17) Warder Clyde Allee, (1885-1955) was a pioneer American scientist in the fields of ecology and animal behavior.
(18) The ordering of your day-to-day life depended on your interaction with the warders.
(19) Here he joined hundreds of others on the " blanket protest " – refusing to wear a prison uniform and call warders "sir".
(20) There was a warder, we called him Suitcase, but his name was Van Rensburg; he had a swastika on his hand.
Warper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape.
(n.) One who, or that which, forms yarn or thread into warps or webs for the loom.