- wícnere
- m (-es/-as) steward, bailiff
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.
wícnere
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Wickner — *Bailiff, steward; the collector of a lord of the *manor s dues, i.e. rents and fines. The Latin form is wikenarius. [< OldEngl. wicnere = bailiff, steward] … Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
praepositus — /priypozatas/ In old English law, an officer next in authority to the alderman of a hundred, called prsepositus regius; or a steward or bailiff of an estate, answering to the wicnere. Also the person from whom descents are traced under the old… … Black's law dictionary
