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ˈunderˌkeeper
[under-1 6 a.]
1. An assistant keeper of a forest, park, etc.; an under-gamekeeper.
1502Privy Purse Exp. Eliz. York (1830) 29 To the undre⁓keper of Swalowfeld for the bringing of iij bukkes. 1589in Essex Rev. (1906) XV. 65 [Another deer was] given away by the underkeeper to his freends. 1622Ld. E. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 257 The Forest of Rockingham..where Sir Francis Fane is under-keeper. 1682Secr. Serv. Money Chas. & Jas. (Camden) 58 Henry Lowin, underkeeper of New Lodge Walk within Waltham Forrest. 1826Scott Woodst. xxxii, The horses are at the under⁓keeper's hut. 1891C. T. C. James Rom. Rigmarole 172 One of the under-keepers carried a little bamboo arrangement.
2. A subordinate custodian or warder.
1598Florio, Sotto custode, an vnder-keeper. 1612Sir T. Bodley in Macray Ann. Bodleian (1880) 408 Y⊇ keeper of the vniversitie Library, with his vnderkeeper. 1637Documents agst. Prynne (Camden) 69 The Keeper or Under-Keeper of the Castle of Lancaster. 1679Hist. Jetzer 37 He waited till the Under-keeper [of the jail] came in. 1710Douglas' æneis Pref., Under-Keeper of the Advocates Library. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) II. 119 Sir, said the under⁓keeper [of the jail], there are few men now at liberty, near so wealthy as this gentleman. |