game-keeper

plural game-keepers

1. alternativeAlternative form of gamekeeper.

   The approach of September brought tidings of Mr. Bertram first in a letter to the game-keeper, and then in a letter to Edmund; […]

   1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 237

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   And that I may not aſperſe any unjuſtly, this ſhall be a particular account to the world, what Sir Rob. Honywood, Sir Will. Boſwell, Mr. Gwyn his Secretary (and ſome others his ſervants) what Palmer my Sollicitor, Robinſon my man, one Horne the Fabrick of Leydon, but of Engliſh extraction; as alſo one Saſſe a game-keeper to the Prince of Aurange, with divers other under-inſtruments have done to ruine me, hoping to wreſt out of my hands thereby either the Honor, or the profit of my performances.

   [1645], [Henry Parker], Mr. William Wheelers Case from His Own Relation, [London]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 3

   Then, Alas! any body was company for every body and the first lord of the land did not think it shame, faute de mieux, to take up with the conversation of his butler, or his game-keeper, over a tankard; while the young ladies, faute de tout, danced "Bobbing Joan," with the rest of the domestics in the servants' hall.

   1823, "Select Society, With Observations on the Modern Art of Matchmaking", in The New Monthly Magazine,by C. M., pub. E. W. Allen,, volume 8 pages 91-92