(a) An officer employed to watch over the game in a park or preserve. Obsolete exc. Historical. (b) A servant who has the charge of a rabbit-warren.

Originally: a forester, a gamekeeper. Subsequently: a keeper of a royal park (also as an honorary title). Now esp.: a warden of a national or state…

A person employed to supervise a walk. A keeper or ranger with a specified ‘walk’ in a forest; a gamekeeper (see walk, n.1 12a). Now historical and…

An assistant keeper of a forest, park, etc.; an under-gamekeeper.

A person who cuts the leaves and twigs of trees to use as food for animals in winter. Obsolete.

a spurious word, arising from a misreading of town man, n. (see etymology).

a person employed to manage a tract of water, originally spec. by guarding against poachers; cf. gamekeeper, n.

A person employed, esp. on an estate, to manage game birds and animals, prevent poaching, and carry out related duties.

A forest ranger. Now rare (historical).

More fully preserver of game or game preserver. A person who breeds or preserves game for sport; a landowner who applies game laws strictly…

A rural policeman; a gamekeeper.

(a) an official responsible for patrolling an area of countryside or parkland; a game warden; (b) British colloquial a speculative builder or…

Forming the second element in the designation of certain officials, as barrack-warden, flesh-warden. fire-warden U.S.: see fire warden n. at fire, n.…

plural. transferred. A gamekeeper (as commonly wearing velveteen clothes).

An officer who has the charge of a forest, woods, or grounds; now esp. = gamekeeper, n.

a warden charged with the supervision of game and hunting in a particular area.

In French-speaking African countries: a person familiar with animal tracks; a game warden. rare.