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Reeve :: Reeve (n.) an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc..

Greeve :: Greeve (n.) A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff..

Errant :: Errant (a.) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.

Burghmaster :: Burghmaster (n.) An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster..

Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted..

Bailiffwick :: Bailiffwick (n.) See Bailiwick.

Nuthook :: Nuthook (n.) A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors..

Philistine :: Philistine (n.) A bailiff.

Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery..

Bailiwick :: Bailiwick (n.) The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.

Estreat :: Estreat (n.) A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer..

Myrmidon :: Myrmidon (n.) A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc..

Boroughmaster :: Boroughmaster (n.) The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough..

Baillie :: Baillie (n.) Bailiff.

Approver :: Approver (v. t.) A bailiff or steward; an agent.

Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc..

Catchpoll :: Catchpoll (n.) A bailiff's assistant.

Hundreder :: Hundreder (n.) One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred..

Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc..

Pestle :: Pestle (n.) A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape.

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