Definition for VER'DER-ER, or VER'DER-OR

VER'DER-ER, or VER'DER-OR, n. [Fr. verdier, from verd, green; or Low L. viridarius.]

An officer in England, who has the charge of the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes view, receive and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses . – Blackstone.

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