water bailie
/ˈwɔːtə ˌbeɪli/noun
A person employed to patrol a river or other body of water, in order to enforce by-laws relating to fishing, and especially to prevent poaching; = water bailiff. Now rare (chiefly Scottish ).
Origin
Late Middle English (in an earlier sense). From water + bailie.
- Group of Twenty
- group person
- group personality
- group practice
- group psychologist
- group psychology
- group rate
- group selection
- groupset
- group sex
- group spring
- group stage
- group-theoretic
- group-theoretical
- group theory
- group therapy
- groupthink
- group thinking
- groupuscule
- group velocity
- group verb
- groupware
- groupwise
- Romberg's test
- Romberg test