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shielder en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈʃiːldə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈʃildɚ/ (General-American)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English schildere; equivalent to shield + -er.

Meanings

1. (agent, form-of) Agent noun of shield: one who shields.
   form of shield
   • 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:

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