Both Uses of
bailiff
in
Mansfield Park
- As for Dr. Grant's bailiff, I believe I had better keep out of his way; and my brother-in-law himself, who is all kindness in general, looked rather black upon me when he found what I had been at."†
Chpt 6
- He had to reinstate himself in all the wonted concerns of his Mansfield life: to see his steward and his bailiff; to examine and compute, and, in the intervals of business, to walk into his stables and his gardens, and nearest plantations; but active and methodical, he had not only done all this before he resumed his seat as master of the house at dinner, he had also set the carpenter to work in pulling down what had been so lately put up in the billiard-room, and given theā¦†
Chpt 20 *
Definition:
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(bailiff) court officer responsible for keeping order in the court including custody of the jury, and custody of prisoners while in court