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PRONUNCIATION OF HEADBOROUGH

headborough  [ˈhedbʌrə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HEADBOROUGH

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Headborough is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HEADBOROUGH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Headborough

In English law, the term headborough, head-borough, borough-head, or borrowhead, referred historically to the head of the legal, administrative or territorial unit known as a tithing. In the Anglo-Saxon system of frankpledge, or frith-borh, the headborough presided over the borhsmen in his jurisdiction, who in turn presided over the local tithingmen. The office was rendered in Latin documents as capitalis plegius or decennarius. By the early 16th century, the term was also applied to a parochial law-enforcement officer subordinate to constable. In this sense it is found in the induction to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, when the Hostess of an alehouse, arguing with a drunken troublemaker, declares, "I know my remedie, I must go fetch the Headborough"; and again in Much Ado About Nothing, where the dramatis personae describes Verges as a Headborough, subordinate to Constable Dogberry.

Definition of headborough in the English dictionary

The definition of headborough in the dictionary is the official in charge of a tithing. Other definition of headborough is a petty constable.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HEADBOROUGH


borough
ˈbʌrə
brugh
ˈbʌrə
burgh
ˈbʌrə
Burra
bʌrə
demurrer
dɪˈmʌrə
durra
ˈdʌrə
goburra
ɡəˈbʌrə
gurrah
ˈɡʌrə
interborough
ˌɪntəˈbʌrə
Kara
ˈkʌrə
kookaburra
ˈkʊkəˌbʌrə
murra
ˈmʌrə
murragh
ˈmʌrə
saburra
səˈbʌrə
thorough
ˈθʌrə
unthorough
ʌnˈθʌrə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HEADBOROUGH

head-start
head-to-head
head-up display
headache
headachey
headachy
headage
headband
headbang
headboard
headcase
headchair
headcheese
headcloth
headdress
headed
headed notepaper
headend
header
header tank

WORDS THAT END LIKE HEADBOROUGH

although
breakthrough
click through
click-through
get through
go through
look through
Marlborough
Middlesbrough
pass-through
Peterborough
rough
Scarborough
see through
see-through
the rough
through
trough
walk through
walk-through
work through

Synonyms and antonyms of headborough in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Headborough
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headborough
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Headborough
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headborough
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Headborough
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headborough
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Headborough
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headborough
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Headborough
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Headborough
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Trends of use of headborough

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HEADBOROUGH»

The term «headborough» is used very little and occupies the 181.089 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HEADBOROUGH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about headborough

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEADBOROUGH»

Discover the use of headborough in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to headborough and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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House of Commons Papers
Constables, 1830) ju\y 5th_ Headborough expenses 0 3 6 Conveyance, &c. Dec. 18th. Constables' bills . . . 2 16 6 1831, June 4th. Headborough, for taking a man to Lewes prison . . 0 18 0 28th. For headborough expenses 0 5 0 October bills 0 ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1836
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Chitty's Collection of Statutes: With Notes Thereon Intended ...
4. and sturdy beggars, which shall pass through or be found in their said parish unapprehended, c “I,” 1' such constable, headborough, or tithingman, shall forfeit as in the said statutes is expressed, ' ' are not duly executed ;" be it enacted, That  ...
Joseph Chitty, William Newland Welsby, Edward Beavan, 1854
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A Collection of Statutes Connected with the General ...
XXXVI. And be it further enacted, That if upon notice given or request made by any officer of excise, to any constable headborough or other ministerial officer of the peace, to go with him as such officer of excise, and to be present at the doing or ...
Great Britain, William David Evans, Anthony Hammond, 1836
4
Statutes at Large ...: (43 v.) ... From Magna charta to 1800
... be directed shall issue his Precept to the Constable, Headborough, Tythingman or other Peace Officer of the Place where such Corps are to be assembled, for quartering and billetting the Noncommissioned Officers, Trumpeters or Buglemen ...
Great Britain, 1797
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
And be it further enacted, That so much of the said recited Act as enacts, “ that if upon Notice given or Request made by any Officer of Excise to any Constable, Headborough, or other ministerial Officer of the Peace, to go with him as such ...
Great Britain, Sir George Kettilby Rickards, 1834
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The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer
Provided also, that any person who shall make seizure or distress, for any of the said forfeitures or penalties, (hall deliver the horse, horses, or other things so seized or distrained, into the custody os the constable, headborough, tythingman,  ...
Richard Burn, 1772
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A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the ...
And the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do further present, - that heretofore (to wit) on, &c. aforesaid, at, &c. aforesaid, the said Jack[ *153 ] son * being then and there in the lawful custody of the said C. VV. as such headborough as ...
Joseph Chitty, Richard Peters, Thomas Huntington, 1836
8
Hume and Smollett abridged, and continued to the accession ...
Ten householders formed a tithing, who were answerable for each other's conduct, and over whom a headborough or borsholder was appointed to preside. livery man was obliged to register himself in some tithing; and none could change his ...
‎1824
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
... or Reward, or by Promise thereof, or by any Indemnitication, or by bscnaces or otherwise, endeavour to prevail on any Chief Conflable, Conllzable, Tythingman, Headborough, or other Ofiicer, to make a false Return of any Liii sor any Parish, ...
Great Britain, Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, John Raithby, 1804
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of ...
HE defendant, who was described as a merchant, was A younge' indicted at the slIirlvae-lmar sessions '787 for refusing to brother a: take upon him the office of headborough for St. Mary [he corpoMatfl/lon otherwise V 'binds/pil, when the jury  ...
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Charles Durnford, Sir Edward Hyde East, 1791

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEADBOROUGH»

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From Cripplegate to Agar Town: inside London's vanished …
The Liberty was administered by its own council of Ten Ancients, chaired by the Headborough, who employed four council officials – two ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
2
Jeffrey William James
He spent many happy times with his grandparents at Headborough and once he ran away to the gypsies who lived in the local woods and ... «Horncastle News, Jun 15»
3
Blackstone: Of Subordinate Magistrates
Their ancient office is that of headborough, tithing-man, or borsholder; of whom we formerly spoke,76 and who are as ancient as the time of the ... «The Moral Liberal, Apr 15»
4
DAVID ARNOLD - The dinosaur doctor's school days in Lewes
The Mantells were a long-established Lewes family; a direct ancestor, John Mantell, was elected Headborough in 1562 and made Constable ... «Sussex Express, Jan 15»
5
Parish council elects youngest ever chairman
... the council's finance committee, Cllr Butcher secured £20,000 for regeneration projects, including the renovation of Headborough Gardens. «Worthing Herald, May 14»
6
Surprise as popular councillor quits post
“At long last we are getting the Beach Green car park re-done, we're starting on Headborough Gardens which is an exciting project, and we are ... «Worthing Herald, Mar 14»
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Lancing Parish Council to consider new garden designs
“A lot of people said Headborough needed something doing to it just to revive it because it was lovely, but over the years it has got a bit weedy ... «Worthing Herald, Dec 13»
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Estate of grace on the Blackwater for €1.45 million
Built around 1830 as a summer residence for the Rev Percy Smyth of Headborough, Monatrae House has retained an atmosphere of sun and ... «Irish Times, Oct 13»
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KEVIN GORDON - Constables on the track of criminals
... Police he was a constable in Southover, variously described as a 'Parish Constable' or 'Headborough' (A term that dates from Saxon times). «Sussex Express, May 13»
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'Much Ado' in OC is much at home in the 1920s
... supremely silly, malaprop-prone Constable Dogberry, paired with Bonnie Walker as a rather androgynous Headborough Verges and backed ... «OCRegister, Aug 12»

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