Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Minder
Mind′er (mīnd′ẽr), 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.] Dickens.