Meanings
plural shielders
- agentAgent noun of shield: one who shields.
1 more example
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 […]
1874, Henry Curwen, A History of Booksellers, the Old and the New, page 478
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
- Middle Englishschildere
- Englishshielder
Inherited from Middle English schildere; equivalent to shield + -er.
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Cite this entry
shielder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shielder
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