gerefan.
/ɡɪˈriːfə//jɛˈreɪvə/ Anglo-Saxon History.
An administrative officer under the Old English kings.
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1833 R. Southey Lives Brit. Admirals I. 66 Ethelwurd and Leofwin..were two of the king's high gerefas.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. ii. iii. 384 (note) In each township among the Saxons, there was a Gerefa, Tun-Gerefa, or Reeve.
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 117 The King's Graphio or Gerefa..exercised the royal prerogatives within..his shire.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1833- electron multiplier
- electron neutrino
- electron optics
- electron pair
- electron probe
- electron spin
- electron spin resonance
- electron telescope
- electron tube
- electron wave
- electron-deficient
- electron-dense
- electron-lucent
- electron-optical
- electronarcosis
- electronarcotic
- electrondeficient
- electrondense
- electronegative
- electronegatively
- electronegativities
- electronegativity
- electronervous
- electroneutral
- electroneutrality