bridge-ward

noun

A warden or guard for a bridge.

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Meanings

nounbridge-ward (plural bridge-wards)

plural bridge-wards

  1. obsoleteA warden or guard for a bridge.

    It is needless to say, that the bridge-ward had usually the better in these questions, since he could at pleasure detain the traveller on the opposite side [of the bridge]

    1820 March, [Walter Scott], The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC
  2. obsoleteThe principal ward of a key.
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APA

bridge-ward. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bridge-ward

MLA

“bridge-ward.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bridge-ward. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bridge-ward,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bridge-ward.

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