wardmaster

Definitions

1. An alderman or director of a city ward in the Netherlands or a Dutch colony.
   historical
2. The superintendent of a hospital ward.

Examples

“Elections as wardmaster or commissioner on the council were open⟳ to all ethnicities but not to all classes, or to women.”

“Well, I have⟳ been talking with Lawrence Worster, my Surgeon-in-Charge, who is a very good fellow. His sick-list is not bad now, and he does not mean⟳ to have⟳ it bad; but he says that he is not pleased with the ways of his ward-masters; and it was his suggestion, not mine, mark⟳ you, that I should see⟳ if one or two of the Sanitary women would not come⟳ as far as this to make⟳ things decent.”

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