shielder
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English schilder; equivalent to shield + -er.
Noun edit
shielder (plural shielders)
- Agent noun of shield: one who shields.
- 1874, Henry Curwen, A History of Booksellers, the Old and the New, page 478:
- Brice was at all times a shielder of the oppressed; and when the Exeter play-actors were purchased out of their theatre by the Methodists, who converted it into a chapel, and indicted them as vagrants, he published a poem […] which so stirred up popular feeling that the Methodists were fain to restore the place to its former possessors […]