Verderership

Also 8 verdurer-. [f. VERDERER² + -SHIP.] The office of a verderer.

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1611. Cotgr., Segrarie, a Verderership; or such a like Office of account in forrests.

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1762. trans. Busching’s Syst. Geog., VI. 296. The verdurership over Osterforest.

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1863. Guardian, 14 Jan., 25/1. The election of proper persons to fill the vacancies in the verderership of the Forest.

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1901. Blackw. Mag., Nov., 660/2. Why should not the author of ‘The Forest Lovers’ … be offered a verderership?

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