sherriff (plural sherriffs)
- Obsolete form of sheriff.
1830, William Cobbett, Eleven Lectures on the French and Belgian Revolutions, page 8:One of these proprietors is a magistrate of Oxfordshire, another a justice of the peace for Berkshire, and Stewart, who was a tailor's trotter, originally, was lately high sherriff [sic] of his county.
