Definition of "borsholder" []

• The head or chief of a tithing, or borough; the headborough; a parish constable. (noun)

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• "Thirty-one days were allowed them for producing the criminal; and if that time elapsed without their being able to find him, the borsholder, with two other members of the decennary, was obliged to appear, and, together with three chief members of the three neighboring decennaries,"
• "The borsholder summoned together his whole decennary to assist him in deciding any lesser differences which occurred among the members of this small community."
• "And no man could change his habitation without a warrant or certificate from the borsholder of the tithing to which he formerly belonged."