shielder

English

Etymology

From Middle English schilder; equivalent to shield +‎ -er.

Noun

shielder (plural shielders)

1. Agent noun of shield: one who shields.
   • 1874, Henry Curwen, A History of Booksellers, the Old and the New, page 478:

     Brice was at all times a shielder of the oppressed; and when the Exeter play-actors were purchased out of their theatre by the Methodists, who converted it into a chapel, and indicted them as vagrants, he published a poem […] which so stirred up popular feeling that the Methodists were fain to restore the place to its former possessors […]

Anagrams

• Heidlers, Shideler, elderish, relished