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Warder vs Harder - What's the difference?

warder | harder |

As a verb warder

is to keep, retain.

As an adjective harder is

(hard).

As a noun harder is

(south africa) any of several species of mullet often used to make bokkoms.

warder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A guard, especially in a prison.
  • (archaic) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands.
  • * 1595 , Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars
    • When, lo! the king suddenly changed his mind, / Casts down his warder to arrest them there.
  • * William Shakespeare, King Richard II, Act 1, Scene 3
    • Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.

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    harder

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (hard)
    • He is more likely to succeed because he tries harder .
    Steel is harder than copper so we use steel tools to cut copper pipes.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) harder'' / ''herder : mullet.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (South Africa) Any of several species of mullet often used to make bokkoms.
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