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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ward·en n.
 1. A keeper; a guardian; a watchman.
    He called to the warden on the . . . battlements.   --Sir. W. Scott.
 2. An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison.
 3. A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically Eccl., a churchwarden.
 4.  A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting.  [Obs.]
    I would have had him roasted like a warden.   --Beau. & Fl.
 Warden pie, a pie made of warden pears. [Obs.]
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