town-reeve
now chiefly historical
noun
1A bailiff, a steward, especially one in charge of an estate.
2A local official in charge of a settlement or town.
Origin
Old English; earliest use found in Bede's Ecclesiastical History.
- persulphate
- persulphide
- persulphuric acid
- pert
- pertain
- pertainment
- pertechnate
- pertechnetate
- pertechnetiate
- pertechnetic
- pertechnic
- pertechnitate
- perten
- Pertex
- Perth
- Perth Amboy
- Perth and Kinross
- Perthes' disease
- Perthes disease
- perthite
- perthitic
- Perthshire
- pertinacious
- pertinaciously
- pertinaciousness