Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Anglo-Saxon history, an officer corresponding to the steward or seneschal of Norman times; a reeve.
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So far as the limited information at our disposal enables us to form an opinion, the responsibility both for the internal peace of the village, and for its obligations to the outside world, seems to have lain with the lord or his steward (_gerefa_, _villicus_) from the beginning.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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As regards the port-reeve — the _port-gerefa_, _i. e._, reeve of the port or town of London (84) — the nature and extent of his duties and authority, much uncertainty exists.
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Sheriff from Shire Reeve or scir gerefa in old English
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In some boroughs the old royal officer, the Portreeve -- the title is a hybrid compounded of the Anglo-Saxon _gerefa_ and the Latin _porta_ (not
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Ord. _ p. 56-8: ‘the grete charge of polycy and husbandry of all this houshold growyth and stondyth moste part by hys sad and dylygent pourveyaunce and conduytes.’] [Footnote 38: AS. _gerefa_, reeve, steward, bailiff.] [Footnote 39: Rents, in kind or money; AS. _feorme_, food, goods.] [Footnote 40: The Avener of Edw.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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