"beward" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1895, William Morris, A.J. Wyatt, Beowulf",
          "text": "Hrothgar's Thane, and full strongly then set he a-quaking The stark wood in his hands, and in council-speech speer'd he: What men be ye then of them that have war-gear, With byrnies bewarded, who the keel high up-builded Over the Lake-street thus have come leading.",
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        "To guard about or completely; protect."
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        "(transitive, rare) To guard about or completely; protect."
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      "rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)d"
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