water bailiff
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I zay, though, it’s rather queer, isn’t it, for me to be water bailiff and keeper over the vish as I used to take.
From Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land by Groome, William H. C.
He was, however, placed at the signal station, and afterwards appointed to assist the water bailiff, and thus had always in view the means of escape!
From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by West, John
A few quarrymenn and their families live there, and also Tom Ringrose, the water bailiff down on Walkham River.
From The Red Redmaynes by Phillpotts, Eden
One was Jim Bassett, under foreman at Duke's quarry, and one was Ringrose, the water bailiff who lives in the end cottage.
From The Red Redmaynes by Phillpotts, Eden
He had asked about wild fowl shooting in the neighbourhood, and the old man had been a water bailiff on the Broads in his younger days.
From The Shrieking Pit by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)
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