The section of a workhouse where tramps and itinerants could be accommodated for one night.

(law) The charge or care of certain officers to keep a watch by night and a guard by day in towns, cities, and other districts, for the preservation of the public peace.

(US, slang) Montgomery Ward, an American retail enterprise.

simple past tense and past participle of ward off

present participle of ward off

(historical) A pill made with poisonous ingredients to induce a violent reaction, claimed to cure any illness.

plural of Ward's pill

(Canada, Ontario) A child or youth who has been placed in foster care without access to his or her natural family for the purpose of adoption

(chiefly law) The state of being a ward of someone. / (historical) In English feudal law, the guardianship which the lord had of the land of his vassal while the latter was an infant or minor.

A man who keeps ward; a guard.