Shielder

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Agent noun of shield: one who shields. agent, form-of

    "Brice was at all times a shielder of the oppressed; and when the Exeter play-actors were purchased out of their theatre by the Methodists, who converted it into a chapel, and indicted them as vagrants, he published a poem […] which so stirred up popular feeling that the Methodists were fain to restore the place to its former possessors […]"

  2. 2
    a person who cares for persons or property wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English schilder; equivalent to shield + -er.

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