warden

A guard or watchman.

He called to the wardens on the outside battlements.

A chief administrative officer of a prison.

The warden of the state prison, Ezekiel Purdy, was a kind man if stern. He invariably made all newcomers a little speech of welcome […]

An official charged with supervisory duties or with the enforcement of specific laws or regulations; such as a game warden or air-raid warden.

A governing official in various institutions

the warden of a college

To carry out the duties of a warden.

A variety of pear.

Faith I would have had him rosted like a warden in a brown Paper, and no more talk on’t:

I must have saffron to colour the warden pies;