Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A keeper or surveyor of roads.
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Examples
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Therein was neither highway nor byway, nor wood-reeve nor way-warden; never came chapman thence into Utterhay; no man of
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There is nothing I have striven at more than doing my duty, way-warden over
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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He was poor-law guardian and way-warden, and filled customarily the various offices of a steady good citizen.
Rachel Ray 1863
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He was poor-law guardian and way-warden, and filled customarily the various offices of a steady good citizen.
Rachel Ray, volume 1 1863
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There is nothing I have striven at more than doing my duty, way-warden over Exmoor.
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The way-warden may do that: I wear out no ways, I go across country.
The Saint's Tragedy Charles Kingsley 1847
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"The late Vicar stubb'd and burnt it," when he was way-warden, regardless of the remonstrances of the bystanders, who interceded in vain for its preservation, urging its power and efficacy, and alleging that it had been
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756
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