Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An officer charged with the prevention or appraising of damages by stray swine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun New Eng. A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A civil
officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large.
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Examples
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He became the Sealer of Leather for the City of Boston (judging and approving the quality of leather) as well as the city’s hogreeve, responsible for enforcing that hogs were “yoked and ringed” according to law, and assessing the damage caused by stray pigs.
Archive 2007-08-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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He became the Sealer of Leather for the City of Boston (judging and approving the quality of leather) as well as the city’s hogreeve, responsible for enforcing that hogs were “yoked and ringed” according to law, and assessing the damage caused by stray pigs.
At the Grave of William Billings Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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