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an official charged with keeping embankments in repair.
A person employed to supervise a walk. An official responsible for a ‘walk’ or section of the New River. Cf. walksman n. at walk, n.1 compounds 2. Obs…
an officer charged with the care of a certain length of the banks of a river or canal.