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BAILIFF
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bailiff" is a kind of...):
functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)
Derivation:
bailiffship (the office of bailiff)
Context examples:
“He could not have gone far, sir bailiff,” cried one of the archers, unslinging his bow.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It shall never be said, whilst I am bailiff of Southampton, that any waster, riever, draw-latch or murtherer came scathless away from me and my posse.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“The old hound is the best when all is said,” quoth the bailiff of Southampton, as they made back for the roadway.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As he raised himself to look over the bracken at his enemies, the staring color caught the eye of the bailiff, who broke into a long screeching whoop and spurred forward sword in hand.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The four on this side are all workers, three of them in the service of the bailiff of Sir Baldwin Redvers, and the other, he with the sheepskin, is, as I hear, a villein from the midlands who hath run from his master.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At the command of the bailiff they plucked off the fellow's shoe, and there sure enough at the side of the instep, wrapped in a piece of fine sendall, lay a long, dark splinter of wood.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“What then?” asked the bailiff.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then, with four attendants, came the novice, her drooping head wreathed with white blossoms, and, behind, the abbess and her council of older nuns, who were already counting in their minds whether their own bailiff could manage the farms of Twynham, or whether a reeve would be needed beneath him, to draw the utmost from these new possessions which this young novice was about to bring them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
