waywarden
(ˈweɪwɔːd(ə)n)
[f. way n.1 + warden n.1]
A person (later, one of a board) elected to supervise the highways of a parish or district.
| 1776 G. White Selborne, To Barrington 8 Jan., As to that [shrew-ash] on the Plestor, ‘The late vicar stubb'd and burnt it,’ when he was way-warden. 1829 in Archaeologia (1831) XXIII. 398 Mr. George Charman, the way-warden..had frequently observed that the cattle resorted to a particular spot to rest. 1862 Act 25 & 26 Vict. c. 61 §9 The Highway Board shall consist of the Waywardens elected in the several Places within the District. 1863 Trollope Rachel Ray I. 274 He was poor-law guardian and way-warden. 1872–4 Jefferies Toilers of Field (1892) 238 This man..was enabled to do a quantity of hauling, flint-carting for the way⁓wardens, [etc.]. |