Verderer

Word VERDERER
Character 8
Hyphenation ver der er
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Definitions and meanings of "Verderer"

What do we mean by verderer?

A man serving as an official in charge of the royal forests of medieval England. noun

In English forest law, a judicial officer in the royal forests, whose peculiar charge was to take care of the vert—that is, the trees and underwood of the forest—and to keep the assizes, as well as to view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses. noun

An officer who has the charge of the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses. noun

An official in charge of a royal forest; in modern times, still extant in the New Forest and the Forest of Dean.

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The word "verderer" in example sentences

A verderer was a royal servant paid to enforce the forest laws. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

For instance, if Gurth, the swineherd, who was now promoted to be a gamekeeper and verderer, brought the account of a famous wild-boar in the wood, and proposed a hunt, Rowena would say, ❋ Unknown (2006)

Never again would she let someone get behind her the way the verderer had last night, when he pushed her into the shed. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

They had not seen a village since morning, and the verderer had said they would not see one all day tomorrow. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

Then she remembered, and was still more frightened: what was the verderer going to do to them? ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

They followed the path to the clearing where they had met the verderer. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

She guessed that the verderer had put the water butt up against it. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

“And the boy will be his son,” said the verderer, although he had not seemed to see Richard. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

But if he really was a verderer, why had he locked them up? ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

Was the man really a verderer, or was he an outlaw? ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

However, it was not the verderer who came in but his small brown wife; and although her face was as set and closed as it had been last night, she was carrying a hunk of bread and two cups. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

The verderer was giving her a strange look, staring at her cloak as if he might be able to see through it if he looked hard enough. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

The verderer came over and said: “Give me the reins.” ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

Aliena was about to speak to her sharply when the verderer came in. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

Windybank, as a verderer, should have remembered this, but weightier matters had driven it from his mind. ❋ Tom Bevan (N/A)

The verderer, roistering Hob Roebuck, swore roundly, "'Twere as good a deed as to eat, to kick down the chapel as well as the monk." ❋ Various (N/A)

The house was in the possession of John Morgan, a verderer [1] of the forest, and the good folk of the forest and river were proud to point to him as a "proper figure of a man." ❋ Tom Bevan (N/A)

'Ho!' the King said to his chief verderer, a man of sixty with a grey beard, but so that all others could hear; 'be it well understood that ❋ Ford Madox Ford (1906)

At the close of every verse he mimicked an owl's call to the life -- having in his young days been a verderer of the New Forest, on the edge of Bradley Plain; and at the end of his third verse, in the middle of a hoot, was answered by a trumpet not far away upon the road to Alton. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

In my own words you certainly would: and so I propose to relate it just as the verderer told it to me. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

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