verderer

American  

[vur-der-er] / ˈvɜr dər ər /

Or verderor

noun

1. an English judicial officer in the royal forests having charge especially of the vert, or trees and undergrowth.

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verderer British  

/ ˈvɜːdərə /

noun

1. English legal history a judicial officer responsible for the maintenance of law and order in the royal forests

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Other Word Forms

• verderership noun

Etymology

Origin of verderer

1535–45; < Anglo-French verderer, Old French verd ( i ) er < Latin viridārius, equivalent to virid ( is ) green + -ārius -ary ( -er ² ); doubling of -er in Anglo-French perhaps by falsely taking verder as a form of verdure verdure

Example Sentences

The Friends of the Wild Boar group maintains that numbers are much lower than believed by the Forestry Commission At the end of August, a meeting was held in Coleford to discuss the issues between the commission , a verderer, and two conservationists.

From BBC

Chair of the meeting, verderer Ian Standing, said those present agreed how hard it was to determine exact numbers of the feral animals.

From BBC

The verderer was a judicial officer chosen in full county by the freeholders in the same manner as the coroner.

From Project Gutenberg

There is a very curious old grant from the Prior of Penruthyn, which my uncle has at Ware, of a right to pasture a certain number of cows in the park, on condition of aiding the verderer in keeping up the green underwood.

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The master-forester, or captain for the year, is the maker of the first “gold” at the annual target; he who makes the second is the senior verderer.

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