sherriff

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sherriff (plural sherriffs)

  1. Obsolete form of sheriff.
    • 1830, William Cobbett, Eleven Lectures on the French and Belgian Revolutions, page 8:
      One of these proprietors is a magistrate of Oxfordshire, another a justice of the peace for Berkshire, and Stewart, who was a tailor's trotter, originally, was lately high sherriff [sic] of his county.