hundreder

English

noun
Definitions
  • An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred (administrative subdivision).
  • (legal) One competent to serve on a jury in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs.
  • One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred.

Etymology

Suffix from English hundred (short hundred, 100).

Origin

English

hundred

Gloss

short hundred, 100

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