(UK, mining, historical) An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workers.
(UK, mining, historical) An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workers.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, historical) An officer who ascertained marks and meres (boundaries) on maps.
(UK) Relating to a burgh or borough.
(historical) A town magistrate.
A formal, historical adjective meaning relating to or characteristic of a burgh or borough — the chartered towns of medieval Britain that had specific legal rights and privileges. Burghals were distinct from rural areas in having organized governance, markets, and civic identity. The word is largely confined to historical and academic writing today, appearing in discussions of Anglo-Saxon town planning, Scottish legal history, or medieval English municipal development. It's the kind of word you encounter in a history book rather than in conversation.
A burgomaster.
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