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Beward

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To guard about or completely; protect. rare, transitive

    "Hrothgar's Thane, and full strongly then set he a-quaking The stark wood in his hands, and in council-speech speer'd he: What men be ye then of them that have war-gear, With byrnies bewarded, who the keel high up-builded Over the Lake-street thus have come leading."

Etymology

From Middle English *bewarden, from Old English beweardian (“to ward, protect, keep”), equivalent to be- + ward.

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