Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   3. A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically
      (Eccl.), a churchwarden.

   4. [Properly, a keeping pear.] A large, hard pear, chiefly
      used for baking and roasting. [Obs.]

            I would have had him roasted like a warden. --Beau.
                                                  & Fl.

   {Warden pie}, a pie made of warden pears. [Obs.] --Shak.