watch+and+ward

  • 61ward — / wȯrd/ n 1: a division of a city for representative, electoral, or administrative purposes 2 a: a person who by reason of incapacity (as minority or incompetency) is under the control of a guardian b: a person who by reason of incapacity is… …

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  • 62Ward v Tesco Stores Ltd — Ward v. Tesco Stores Ltd [1976] 1 W.L.R. 810; [1976] 1 All E.R. 219; [1976] I.R.L.R. 92, is an English tort law case concerning the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur ( the thing speaks for itself ). It deals with the law of negligence and it set an… …

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  • 63watching and warding — variant of watch and ward …

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  • 64Ward (surname) — Family name name = Ward imagesize= caption= pronunciation = meaning = region =England, Ireland origin =Old English, Old Gallic related names = footnotes = Ward is a popular Old English origin and Old Gaelic origin surname dating to the pre Norman …

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  • 65ward — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English weard & Anglo French warde, garde, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German warta act of watching, Old English warian to beware of, guard, wær careful more at guard, wary Date: before 12th… …

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  • 66Ward Armstrong — Infobox State Representative imagesize = 150px name=Ward Armstrong width= state delegate=Virginia district=10th term start=1992 term end= preceded= A. L. Philpott succeeded= Incumbent party=Democrat date of birth= Birth date and age|1956|6|2|… …

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  • 67ward — [OE] Ward and guard are ultimately the same word. Both go back to a prehistoric West Germanic *wartho ‘watching over’. But whereas guard reached English via Old French, ward is a lineal descendant of the Germanic word. The noun originally meant… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 68ward — [OE] Ward and guard are ultimately the same word. Both go back to a prehistoric West Germanic *wartho ‘watching over’. But whereas guard reached English via Old French, ward is a lineal descendant of the Germanic word. The noun originally meant… …

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  • 69Ward — Section or division of a town or city which had its own *alderman and court. In London there were 24 wards, each of which had its own court. A *wardmoot was similar in function to the court of a rural *hundred. The duty of a watchman/sentinel was …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 70Watch — The keeping guard and maintenance of order in a town or borough during the night. Cf. Ward …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases