Portreeve

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Portreeve \Port"reeve`\, n.
     A port warden.
     [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:



  PORT-REEVE, Eng. law. In some places in England an officer bearing this name 
  is the chief magistrate of a port-town. Jacob's Dict. h.t.