Aider

The capitaines of the toune seyng theire pillers borken, and their chief ayders discomfited, rendered the toune to the duke of Somerset,

[…] arte is neither an aider nor a surmounter, but onely a bare immitatour of natures works, following and counterfeyting her actions and effects […]

[…] being there as an assistant, he actually seemed—[…]—to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation, […]

The woman in question had, as she said, been a close friend of Margaret’s, and, as such, an aider in her habits of intemperance.

As I was switching my feet in my aiders, the hook popped.