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bailiffs-errant

bailiffs-errant is the plural of bailiff-errant.

Meaning of bailiff-errant

Noun

bailiff-errant (plural bailiffs-errant)

  1. (historical) An official employed by the sheriff to carry out summonses, writs etc. within the county.
    • The warrant straight was made, and therewithall / A Baylieffe-errant forth in post did passe […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about bailiffs-errant

What is bailiffs-errant the plural of?
Bailiffs-errant is the plural of bailiff-errant.

Words near bailiffs-errant in the dictionary

  1. bailiff
  2. bailiff-errant
  3. bailiffries
  4. bailiffry
  5. bailiffs
  6. bailiffs-errant
  7. bailiffship
  8. bailiffships
  9. bailiffwick
  10. bailiffwicks
  11. bailing

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