Definition of "underkeeper" []

• A subordinate keeper or guardian. (noun)

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• "One was her father, another the underkeeper, and the third was a stranger."
• "Bell, the Squire's underkeeper, with such murderous fury that it took all the men in the room to pull him off."
• "Upon which the L.C.J. ordered the Marshal to be called, and questioned him about the safe keeping of the prisoner, but could find nothing: except the Marshal said that he had been informed by the underkeeper that they had seen a person outside his door or going up the stairs to it: but there was no possibility the person should have got in."