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beward - What does it mean?

Definition of 'beward'

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • (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.