Crossword-Solution: GEREFA
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Hint 1 meaning
The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in
some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue
of Hercules, or of a lion.
Hint 2 anagram
ESTUTA
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Sentences with GEREFA (5)
According to the _Gerefa_, written about 1000--and there was very little alteration for a long time afterwards--the mansion was adjacent to a court or yard which the quadrangular homestead surrounded with its barns, horse and cattle stalls, sheep pens and fowlhouse.
Sometimes this appears to be the title of the senior Bailiff, as Richard Burgess and Thomas Ouenat are described as Bailiffs in a deed _circa_ 1230, but in another deed of the same date Burgess is called 'Major' and Ouenat 'Bailiff.'" In some boroughs the old royal officer, the Portreeve--the title is a hybrid compounded of the Anglo-Saxon _gerefa_ and the Latin _porta_ (not _portus_), alluding to the gate, where the markets were held--bore sway.
Paul’s church, there to hear a _De profundis_ on the day when the new mayor took his oath of office before the Barons of the Exchequer.(83) (M56) As regards the port-reeve—the _port-gerefa_, _i.e._, reeve of the port or town of London(84)—the nature and extent of his duties and authority, much uncertainty exists.
They appear with the ealdormen in the judicial meetings of the counties: if the Gerefa neglects his duty, it is for them to step in; yet they have also their own spiritual jurisdiction.
These things were found again with Ælfric the juggler.” Then the gerefa proceeded to examine the several persons.