sheriff

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The next time one of your deputies or the sheriff is around say hay to Barney for me will you. bobbo said, on March 25th, 2009 at 10: 19 am

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  1. noun The chief law enforcement officer for the courts in a U.S. county.
  2. noun An officer of a county or an administrative region in England, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, charged mainly with judicial duties.

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  • Scuttlebutt says the sheriff is about to call in the feds. —  Hooper, Kay - Whisper of Evil
  • He does the tracking for Sheriff Brander whenever somebody the sheriff is after takes to the hills The road they were following was mounting into the hills. —  128 - The Goblins
  • Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said the department and a review office found deputies did not engage in racial profiling, but that the sheriff is always looking for ways to improve training. —  CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports
  • Even some county officials said Tuesday that the sheriff is acting prematurely. —  Home
  • The next time one of your deputies or the sheriff is around say hay to Barney for me will you. bobbo said, on March 25th, 2009 at 10: 19 am —  Dvorak Uncensored
 

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  1. Middle English, the representative of royal authority in a shire, from Old English scīrgerēfa : scīr, shire + gerēfa, reeve.

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  1. Also sometimes in the restored or explanatory form shire-reere; also sometimes contracted shrieve, early modern English sheriffe, schereff, shireeve, etc., from Middle English shereve, scherreve, shireve, shirreve, schyrere, schirreve, syrreve (plural shireves, schirreves, shrives), from Anglo-Saxon scir-gerēfa, ‘shire-reeve,’ from scire, shire, + gerēfa, a reeve, officer: see shire and reeve. Cf. townreeve, portreeve.
 

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