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scawator

scawator [cf. scavingor], elected municipal official responsible for cleaning and maintaining streets, walls, and waterways. a1341 per sacramentum xij ~orum dicti marisci [de Spadelond'] ad hoc per eosdem homines illarum parcium electorum (Sussex) KR Ac 547/20; 1342 idem computat solvisse ballivis et scawator' predictarum walliarum et watergangarum pro reparacione ‥ diversorum defectuum Pipe 187 r. 53d.; per dictos ballivos et ~ores dicti marisci (Winchelsea) Ib..

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