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Minder   Listen
noun
Minder  n.  
1.
One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.
2.
One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person. (Eng.)





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"Minder" Quotes from Famous Books



... had struck him. By the care with which this story is treasured up in their memory, and the earnestness and horror with which it is related, the Landers were inclined to believe, that although there is so great a fuss about the Borgoo robbers, and so manifest a dread of them, that a minder on the high-way is of very rare occurrence. When this crime was perpetrated, the whole nation seemed to be terror-struck, and the people rose up in arms, as if a public enemy were devastating their country, and slaughtering its inhabitants without mercy. This is the only instance ...
— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish
... luck. The tribe had a certain pride in their ruler, but that was all the satisfaction they got out of it. He came the very night that Ugh-lomi killed Uya the Cunning, and so it was they named him Uya. It was the old woman, the fire-minder, who first named him Uya. A shower had lowered the fires to a glow, and made the night dark. And as they conversed together, and peered at one another in the darkness, and wondered fearfully what Uya would do to them in their dreams now that he was dead, they heard ...
— Tales of Space and Time • Herbert George Wells
... calculated. He knew his man. And just now as he awaited the explosion he looked for, his thoughts went back to a scene he had once had with a half drunken machine-minder whom he had had to pay off. The man had epitomised the chief engineer's qualities and character, as those who encountered his authority understood them, in a few lurid, illuminating phrases. "You know," he had said, "that guy ain't a man. No, sir. He's ...
— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum


Words linked to "Minder" :   keeper, babyminder, escort, baby minder


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