Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The title of various German counts or nobles whose office originally was connected with the forests or with hunting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See
waldgrave .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
waldgrave , or headforest keeper .
Etymologies
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German Wildgraf or Dutch wildgraaf. See wild, and compare margrave.
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Examples
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No real violence was done to us, and once or twice, when it was known that some tyrannical wildgrave or venal burgess had been delivered to the mercy of the guild, we received shouted suggestions as to his disposal - most of them obscene and many impossible.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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