单词 | hog constable |
释义 | > as lemmashog constable hog constable n. now rare and historical = hog reeve n. ΚΠ 1710 Minutes 6 Mar. in C. Brooks Hist. Town Medford (1855) iii. 103 At a town-meeting legally convened at Medford..Lieut. Stephen Willis chosen Moderator; Peter Seccombe chosen Constable..Ichabod Peirce and John Albree, Wood-corders; Nath. Peirce, Hog constable. 1883 J. A. Dix Mem. I. I. 17 I had heard its bare walls ring with tumultuous laughter, when some man, who had been prosperous in money-making and assumed airs, was elected hog-constable by acclamation. 2007 Bow (Bow Heritage Commission) ii. 38 At the second town meeting on April 4, 1768, Bow residents voted Reuben Currier of Bow Mills and Samuel Alexander of River Road as hog constables. < as lemmas |
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