beward

From Middle English *bewarden, from Old English beweardian (“to ward, protect, keep”), equivalent to be- +‎ ward.

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

beward (third-person singular simple present bewards, present participle bewarding, simple past and past participle bewarded)

1. (transitive, rare) To guard about or completely; protect.
   • 1895, William Morris, A.J. Wyatt, Beowulf:

     Hrothgar's Thane, and full strongly then set he a-quaking The stark wood in his hands, and in council-speech speer'd he: What men be ye then of them that have war-gear, With byrnies bewarded, who the keel high up-builded Over the Lake-street thus have come leading.

• bedraw, dawber