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Underkeeper

Underkeeper \Un"der*keep`er\, n. A subordinate keeper or guardian.
--Gray.

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underkeeper

n. (context obsolete English) A subordinate keeper or guardian.

Usage examples of "underkeeper".

Three or four of the men round the fire were evidently underkeepers and verderers from the forest, sunburned and bearded, with the quick restless eye and lithe movements of the deer among which they lived.

She was Underkeeper at Neskaya, then Keeper after he left there, and came to Hali for a time.

He was particularly fond of his cousin Valenta Elhalyn, who was now Underkeeper there, even though she was only twenty-eight.

Marriage to Dani clearly agreed with her, as being Underkeeper at Arilinn agreed with her younger sister Valenta.

Charles and his companion, a strapping young underkeeper, evidently anxious to distinguish himself, waited, listening intently in the intervals of silence.