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the office or position of an equerry.
the office or condition of a groom.
The state or condition of being a tiger (in any sense); in quot. 1846, the post of boy-groom (see tiger, n. 6).
The condition and functions of a ‘tiger’ or juvenile groom (tiger, n. 6).