outroper

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ roper.

Noun

outroper (plural outropers)

1. (law) A person to whom the business of selling by auction was confined by statute.
2. (historical) An officer in London who seized the goods of foreigners sold elsewhere than in the public market.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1910 edition of Black’s Law Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• uprooter