port-reeve

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Portreeve \Port"reeve`\, n.
   A port warden.
   [1913 Webster]
from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
PORT-REEVE, Eng. law. In some places in England an officer bearing this name 
is the chief magistrate of a port-town. Jacob's Dict. h.t.
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