"Boroughholder" is a word in ENGLISH
A headborough; a borsholder.
We decided to leave early, you wouldn't want to be there in the end, when the lights came on. You'd never sit down in here again. In a depressing shuffle we pushed to the door, now it was good to get up and out, while it was still a black hole, warm, and smokey, full of possibilities...
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See Headborough.
Read the complete definitionThe head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable.
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. The borough's ealder, or headborough, supposed to be in the discreetest man in the borough, town, or …
Read the complete definitionAlt. of Headborrow
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. Tbe head or chlef officer of a borough; chief of the frankpledge tithing or decennary. This office …
Read the complete definitionThe chief man of a tithing; a headborough; one elected to preside over the tithing.
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