Word Meanings - PORTREEVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A port warden.

Related words: (words related to PORTREEVE)

• WARDENRY; WARDENSHIP
  The office or jurisdiction of a warden.
• WARDEN
  A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting. I would have had him roasted like a warden. Beau. & Fl. Warden pie, a pie made of warden pears. Shak. (more info) 1. A keeper; a guardian; a watchman. He called to the warden on the .
• FIREWARDEN
  An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward.
• CHURCHWARDEN
  1. One of the officers in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service. 2. A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube. There was a small wooden table
• CHURCHWARDENSHIP
  The office of a churchwarden.