gamekeepern.

1645 H. Parker Mr. William Wheelers Case 3 One Sasse a game-keeper to the Prince of Aurange.

1670–1 Act 22 & 23 Chas. II c. 25 §1 Bee it enacted..That all Lords of Mannours..may..authorize one or more..Game~keepers..who..may take and seize all such Gunns, Bowes [etc.].

1700 tr. G. de Courtilz de Sandras French Spy ii. 38 The Marquiss..did vent part of his Anger upon two of his Game-keepers.

1772 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 305 A greyheaded game-keeper always saw the partridge on the ground before they rose.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. xxii. 307 You are engaged to meet one of Glenallan's gamekeepers..to persecute the peaceful feathered creation.

1860 All Year Round 1 Sept. 485 It is the gamekeeper's business to repress poachers.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xxi. 727 Apart from the majority of gamekeepers and sportsmen, every lover of wild life will be glad to know that the wild cat..is on the increase in Scotland.

1990 J. Trollope Passionate Man i. 1 She didn't mind blood, she told Dr. Logan. Her father had been a gamekeeper.

1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma i. 2 The vulgar groomy gamekeepery styles of dress.

1931 C. S. Lewis Let. 25 Dec. (2004) II. 29 A civil gamekeepery kind of man walked up on the Philips side of the boundary..and had a chat about trees.

2008 Evening Herald (Ireland) (Nexis) 23 Apr. He turned up at McCartney's idyllic pad, where a gamekeepery type politely but firmly refused him entry.