ˈover-ˈward, n.
[prop. two words: over a. and ward n.]
The upper ward.
| 1485 Rolls of Parlt. VI. 384/2 The Forster of the Overwarde of our Forest of Inglewoode. 1547 Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 71 And with him the ouir ward of Cliddisdaile. 1773 Erskine Instit. i. iv. §5. 54 In the shire of Clydesdale, Lanerk is the head borough of the overward,..Hamilton is the head borough of the nether ward. 1862 J. Grant Capt. of Guard i, David Liberton, sergeant of the overward of the constabulary of Edinburgh, in the time of David II. |