Hayward

Noun

 * 1)  One whose occupation involved overseeing the sowing and harvesting of crops as well as protecting the crops from stray people or animals.
 * 2) * 1877, William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves, & George Sharswood, A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors, p571
 * ... it was held that this was not indictable, for till the horse got to the pound the hayward was merely acting as the servant of the owner of the land ...
 * 1) * 1881, The Antiquary, vol III, p255
 * The hayward at the same place had an acre of the lord's corn in autumn, always in a certain part of the field.
 * 1) * 1890, Jean Jules Jusserand, English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages, p24
 * A horn, such as our man wears, was always worn by a hayward, who used to blow it to warn off people from straying in the crops.

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