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bridge-wards

bridge-wards is the plural of bridge-ward.

Meaning of bridge-ward

Noun

bridge-ward (plural bridge-wards)

  1. (obsolete) A 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....
  2. (obsolete) The principal ward of a key.

Questions about bridge-wards

What is bridge-wards the plural of?
Bridge-wards is the plural of bridge-ward.

Words near bridge-wards in the dictionary

  1. bridge-burner
  2. bridge-burners
  3. bridge-burning
  4. bridge-burnings
  5. bridge-ward
  6. bridge-wards
  7. bridgeable
  8. bridgeboard
  9. bridgeboards
  10. bridgebuilder
  11. bridgebuilders

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