Middle English Dictionary Entry
gard(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | gard(e n. Also guard(e. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Care, custody, guardianship; command, control; protection, safekeeping; in streit ~, under strict surveillance; [see also save-garde]; (b) take ~ of, to take care of (sb. or sth.), pay attention to (sb. or sth.); take good ~; (c) a body of soldiers or retainers; ?also, an individual guardsman; (d) part of a piece of armor; (e) in surnames.
Associated quotations
a
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.137 : To þis two Hector gaf þe guarde And gouernaunce of þe firste warde.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.691 : Zantipus..Hadde to kepe, committed to his garde, On Grekis side þe nyntenþe warde.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.6516 : And Menelay toke þe quene Eleyne In-to his garde.
- c1450(c1400) Sultan Bab.(Gar 140)1850 : Do feter hem faste in Iren and stele And set hem in strayȝte garde.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)8793 : She is a tresourere Off konnyng & of sciencys, And off all Experyencys That be commyttyd to hyr garde.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)17414 : I be-kam hys paramour And hadde in guarde al hys tresour.
b
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)45.698 : I Charge the..Of Celydoyne and hym thou take good Garde.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)1082 : I þynke, in euery sel, on grounde to be graythyd gay, & of my selfe to take good gard.
- a1450 Parton.(1) (UC C.188)2509 : Of the contree he taketh grete garde.
- c1450(c1400) Sultan Bab.(Gar 140)2957 : Charles entred in the firste warde With xv knightis and no moo; Of hym his oste toke no garde, He wende his oste hade entred also.
c
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.1665 : Þe knyȝtes of his garde, For lak of hym, wern alle out of warde.
- (1464) RParl.5.567a : The seid people of straunge Londes have come into this Londe..and bought up by the handes of their Gardes, Hostes, and Guydes the grete and chief stuffe of Englissh Hornes unwrought.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)150 : He shall haue than a greter myght, and a garde off his officers, when he liste to call thaym, than he hath nowe.
d
- (1454) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.147 : [4 pairs of] vambras [at 2 s. 6 d. the pair, 10 s.; 4] gardebras [lacking 2] gardes [and 2] pollerons [lacking one] garde, [3 s. 8 d.].
e
- (1275) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms147 : Joh. Legard.
- (1327) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms147 : Will. gard.
- (1332) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms147 : Joh. Gard.