[f. as prec. + -SHIP.] The office of bailiff.

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1651.  W. Cartwright, Ordinary, in Dodsl., O. P., X. 258. Let me now begin My bailiff-ship.

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1863.  Chevron, in N. & Q., Ser. III. III. 185. The bailiff-ship or ministration of justice.

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