单词 | dike-reeve |
释义 | dike-reeven. An officer appointed or approved by the Commissioners of Sewers, to take charge of the drains, sluices, and sea-banks of a district of fen or marsh-land in England. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > official in charge of drains or dykes dike-grave1563 dike-reeve1665 dike-warden1890 1665 Act 16 & 17 Chas. II c. 11 §7 Summes of Money..by the said Dykereeves and Surveyours of Sewers or any of them expended in and about the takeing, repairing and amending of any such Breach or Breaches, Goole or Gooles, Overflowing or Overflowings of waters. 1726 Laws of Sewers 189 The Dyke-Reeves, Officers, or other Inhabitants there may set down the Slough of such Drains. 1848 Act 12 & 13 Vict. c. 50 §3 To appoint one or more competent person or persons, being an occupier of sewable lands..to act as dyke-reeve within each of such sub-districts. 1883 Notice 19 Oct. (Worle View of Sewers, Weston-super-Mare) Owing to the violence of the Gale on the 17th. a Special View of the Dyke Reeves was held, and your Work..was found to require repairing. 1894 Minute-bk. Court of Sewers, Wapentake of Manley &c. Dec. 17 Being occupiers of not less than ten acres of sewable land in the Messingham District..they are hereby appointed to act as dykereeves within the said district. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1665 |
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