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Dispender :: Dispender (n.) One who dispends or expends; a steward.

Provisor :: Provisor (n.) The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house..

Copyhold :: Copyhold (n.) A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court..

Graff :: Graff (n.) A steward; an overseer.

Feeder :: Feeder (n.) One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward..

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

Granger :: Granger (n.) A farm steward.

Major-domo :: Major-domo (n.) A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer..

Dapifer :: Dapifer (n.) One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household..

Comprador :: Comprador (n.) A kind of steward or agent.

Landreeve :: Landreeve (n.) A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward..

Court-leet :: Court-leet (n.) A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet..

Steward :: Steward (n.) In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands..

Seneschal :: Seneschal (n.) An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands..

Steward :: Steward (n.) A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep accounts, and the like..

Stewish :: Stewartry (n.) In Scotland, the jurisdiction of a steward; also, the lands under such jurisdiction..

Greencloth :: Greencloth (n.) A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates..

Verge :: Verge (n.) The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore..

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

Cellarer :: Cellarer (n.) A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.

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