What does trithing-reeve mean?

trithing-reeve

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Where a county is divided into three of these intermediate jurisdictions, they are called trithings, which were antiently governed by a trithing-reeve. These trithings still subsist in the large county of York, where by an easy corruption they are denominated ridings; the north, the east, and the west-riding."

trithing-reeves (plural)

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