Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An overseer; a superintendent; specifically, in Scots law, an umpire appointed by a submission to decide where two arbiters have differed in opinion, or named by the arbiters themselves, under powers given them by the submission.
- noun In lawn-bowls, one who decides as to the value of a shot in case of a dispute.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An overseer; a superintendent.
- noun (Scots Law) An umpire; a third arbiter, appointed when two arbiters, previously selected, disagree.
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- noun An
overseer orsuperintendent . - noun Scotland, law An
umpire ; a thirdarbiter , appointed when two arbitersdisagree .
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In his testament, written at Striviling in his "awin dwelling house," on the 5th of that month, as he nominates Mr. Robert Pont, Provost of Trinity College, to act as oversman, and one of his assignees, we may infer, that Clapperton had embraced the reformed doctrines.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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