tineman

plural tinemen

1. UKhistoricalobsoletelawA low-ranking officer of the forest who was responsible for vert and venison by night.

   The tinemen and verderers have not forgotten me yet, and my larder is ever full.

   1905–1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], published January 1906, →OCLC

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   Canute himself appointed various officers—Primarii, our Verderers; Lespegend, our Regarders; and Tinemen, our Keepers. The offences of hunting, wounding, or killing a deer, striking a verderer or regarder, cutting vert, are all minutely specified in his Forest Law, and punished, according to rank and other circumstances, with different degrees of severity.

   1863, John Richard de Capel Wise, The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery