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单词 shireman
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shiremann.

Etymology: Old English scírman , scíreman : see shire n., and man n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈshireman.
Obsolete exc. dialect (in sense 2).
1. Anglo-Saxon Law. A sheriff. (Erroneously explained by Lambarde as = ealdorman n. 1).In Old English the word had also the sense of ‘holder of official charge’, ‘bailiff’, ‘steward’ (rendering Latin præpositus, etc.).
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society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > sheriff or high sheriff
shiremanc1020
sheriffc1034
viscount1387
shire-reeve14..
high sheriff1450
c1020 in Kemble Cod. Dipl. IV. 9/29 Æðelwine scirman.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 343 Oure Elders before the conquest, had their trialles for title of land, and other controuersies, in each shire, before a Judge, then called Alderman, or Shyreman.
2. An inhabitant of the ‘shires’ (see shire n. 6).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > inhabitant of a district or parish > [noun]
parishen?c1225
parishioner1462
provinciala1475
hundreder1501
parochian1502
local1591
confiner1595
palatine1610
provincialist1656
shiremana1825
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a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) at Shere Aye, I knew he must be a shere-man by his tongue.
1874 Q. Rev. Oct. 494 To this day also, an East Anglian talks, not without a shade of contempt, of an inhabitant of another county as a sheeres man.
1909 A. Morrison Green Ginger 155 [Essex speaker] But a shire man allus was a fool.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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