Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An officer appointed to superintend the keeping of the town walls in repair and to receive a certain toll (murage) for that purpose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who had charge of the wall of a town, or its repairs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
officer in charge of thetown walls , or theirrepairs .
Etymologies
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From Middle English murager, from Old French muragier ("an officer in charge of town walls, receiving toll for repairs"), from murage ("tax levied for the building or repairing of town walls"), from Latin murus ("a wall") + -aticum.
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daviddabaum commented on the word murenger
Mu´ren`ger
n. 1. One who had charge of the wall of a town, or its repairs.
September 25, 2009