portgreve

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin portgrevius, from Old English portgerēfa, from port +‎ gerēfa (“reeve”).

Noun edit

portgreve (plural portgreves)

(obsolete, UK) Synonym of portreeve

References edit

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “portgreve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)