“hog-reeve”的英文意思

单词

hog-reeve

释义

ˈhog-reeve U.S.
[f. hog n.¹ + reeve.]
An officer charged with the prevention or appraising of damages by stray swine; a field-driver. Formerly a town officer in New England; the office is now merely nominal.
1759Amherst Rec. (1884) 21/1 Joseph Clark..John Petty sworn Hog Riffs.1780Ibid. 77/2 Voted—Israel Dickinson..Benjamin Smith Hogreeves.1837–40Haliburton Clockm (1862) 138, I wonder, says he, if there's are a hogreave here, because if there be I require a turn of his office.1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. ii. xlviii. 229 Hog reeves (now usually called field drivers).

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