Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who has the custody of a park, or who is employed to preserve order in or otherwise to take care of a park.

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Examples

  • The death has occurred of Adam, protoplast, progenitor, park-keeper and agriculturalist.

    It is interesting that Sir George Young took the opportunity... 2008

  • The solitary park-keeper was talking to a nursemaid.

    Flush: a biography 2004

  • To this stern injunction, Gregory made no reply, any more than to the courteous offer of old Albert Drawslot, the chief park-keeper, who proposed to blow vinegar in his nose, to sharpen his wit, as he had done that blessed morning to Bragger, the old hound, whose scent was failing.

    Waverley 2004

  • The old lady who read the Débats was sitting on her chair, in her invariable place, and had just accosted a park-keeper, with

    Swann's Way 2003

  • The park-keeper, abandoning his watch over the greenery, with the colour of which his uniform had been designed to harmonise, was talking to her, on a chair by her side.

    The Guermantes Way 2003

  • I dozed, and was just on the point of falling asleep, when a park-keeper put his hand on my shoulder and said:

    Hunger 2003

  • Unofficial lulls thrice daily for the Angelus; the decided ceasefire every morning, eleven sharp, when the park-keeper fed the ducks in the Green.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Unofficial lulls thrice daily for the Angelus; the decided ceasefire every morning, eleven sharp, when the park-keeper fed the ducks in the Green.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • They were city squirrels, you know, who lived in a park and had their daily supply of peanuts left at their door by the park-keeper.

    Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories Howard B. Famous

  • Joseph Watson, who died in 1753, at the age of 104, "having been park-keeper at Lyme more than sixty-four years."

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829 Various

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