Word Meanings - BOROUGHHOLDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A headborough; a borsholder.

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• HEADBOROUGH; HEADBORROW
  A petty constable. (more info) 1. The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. Blackstone.
• BORSHOLDER
  The head or chief of a tithing, or borough ; the headborough; a parish constable. Spelman.