Shielder
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 a person who cares for persons or property wordnet
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More examples"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 […]"
Etymology
From Middle English schilder; equivalent to shield + -er.