HAYWARD
\hˈe͡ɪwəd], \hˈeɪwəd], \h_ˈeɪ_w_ə_d]\
Definitions of HAYWARD
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1910 - Black's Law Dictionary (2nd edition)
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1894 - Dictionary of United States history
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.
By Oddity Software
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An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.
By Noah Webster.
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In old English law. An officer appointed in the lord's court to keepa common herd of cattle of a town; so called because he was to see that they did notbreak or Injure the hedges of inclosed grounds. His duty was also to impoundtrespassing cattle, and to guard against pound-breaches. Kitch. 46; Cowell. AdamsNichols, 1 Aikens (Vt.) 319.
By Henry Campbell Black
By Sir Augustus Henry
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A town officer appointed in the early New England colonies to look after hedges and boundaries of private property and prevent encroachment. Also his office was akin to that of the impounder and common driver.
By John Franklin Jameson
By Henry Percy Smith