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shieldbearer

shieldbearer is the alternative form of shield-bearer.

Meaning of shield-bearer

Noun

shield-bearer (plural shield-bearers)

  1. A person who carries a shield, either a warrior, or a lower-ranking person who carries a shield for a higher-ranking person.
    • “Never have shield-bearers so grim of face ever landed before on out shores!”1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 23

Forms of shieldbearer

pluralshieldbearers

Questions about shieldbearer

What is shieldbearer the alternative form of?
Shieldbearer is the alternative form of shield-bearer.

Words near shieldbearer in the dictionary

  1. shield-walls
  2. shieldable
  3. Shieldaig
  4. shieldback
  5. shieldbacks
  6. shieldbearer
  7. shieldbearers
  8. shieldbill
  9. shieldbills
  10. shieldbug
  11. shieldbugs

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