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

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

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

Factor :: Factor (n.) A steward or bailiff of an estate.

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

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

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

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

Bumbailiff :: Bumbailiff (n.) See Bound bailiff, under Bound, a..

Assize :: Assize (n.) An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business..

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..

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

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

Philistine :: Philistine (n.) A bailiff.

Bailiffwick :: Bailiffwick (n.) See Bailiwick.

Water Bailiff :: Water bailiff () An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels..

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

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

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..

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

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