SHERIFFALTY
\ʃˈɛɹɪfə͡lti], \ʃˈɛɹɪfəlti], \ʃ_ˈɛ_ɹ_ɪ_f_əl_t_i]\
Definitions of SHERIFFALTY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The office or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
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Sheriff-depute, in Scot., formerly a sheriff who acted for the hereditary or high sheriff, whose office corresponded very nearly to the modern sheriff-substitute, but who is now, since the abolition of hereditary sheriffs, the principal sheriff of a county.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Sir Augustus Henry
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