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n. The elected president of a town council in some parts of Canada.

n. Any of various minor officers of parishes or other local authorities.

n. A bailiff or steward of a manor in the later medieval period.

n. A high officer of local administration appointed by the Anglo-Saxon kings.

v. Nautical To pass (a rope or rod) through a hole, ring, pulley, or block.

v. Nautical To fasten by passing through or around.

v. Nautical To pass a rope or rod through (a hole, ring, pulley, or block).

n. The female ruff.

n. Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.

n. The president of a township or municipal district council.

n. A proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to wing commander.

v. To pass a rope through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it.

n. A female of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff.

n. The female of the ruff.

v. To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.

n. an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds

n. A steward; a prefect; a bailiff; a business agent.

n. A foreman in a coal-mine.

An obsolete variant of reave.

Nautical, to pass or run through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ring-bolt, cringle, etc., as the end of a rope.

n. A bird, the female of the ruff, Machetes pugnax, See Pavoncella, and cut under ruff.

To run (a ship) through narrow channels in a shoal or through openings in an ice-pack, after the fashion of a rope through the hole in a block, etc.

v. fasten by passing through a hole or around something

v. pass a rope through

v. pass through a hole or opening

n. female ruff

"But I didn't know it was serious enough to call a reeve out of Toskala. ""

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sompnour    shipman    apparitor    process-server    grumpiness    bailiff    pedlar    victualer    outskirt    carcanet