| 单词 | fence-viewer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfence-viewer fence-viewer n. U.S. an officer whose duty it is to see to the erection and maintenance of boundary and highway fences. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > in U.S. fence-viewer1661 county commissioner1668 naval officer1702 agent1707 processioner1731 Indian agent1766 processionary1890 trustbuster1893 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > management of pasture > [noun] > worker with fences fence-viewer1661 fence-rider1834 fencer1881 1661 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1880) IV. 109 Fence viewers: for the necke of land, Richard Withington, [etc.]. 1706 Rec. Muddy River & Brookline, Mass. (1875) 92 Voted that John Winchester jun'r & Edward Devotion should serve as Fence viewers. 1771 H. Pelham Let. in Lett. & Papers Copley & Pelham (Mass. Hist. Soc.) (1914) 125 She will apply to the Fence viewers to have the Fences made upp. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase xxii. 209 From Governor down to a deputy constable's deputy and fence-viewer's clerk's first assistant. 1880 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 504 A hare..or..a brown wood wren... These are the fence viewers of the wood lot. 1886 J. Hopkins' Univ. Stud. IV. 20 In 1647, fence viewers were appointed, by whom..every new building had to be approved. < as lemmas |
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