"hayward" meaning in English

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          "word": "Haywards Heath"
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          "ref": "1877, William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves, George Sharswood, A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors, page 571",
          "text": "[…] it was held that this was not indictable, for till the horse got to the pound the hayward was merely acting as the servant of the owner of the land […]",
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          "ref": "1881, The Antiquary, volume III, page 255",
          "text": "The hayward at the same place had an acre of the lord's corn in autumn, always in a certain part of the field.",
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          "ref": "1890, Jean Jules Jusserand, English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages, page 24",
          "text": "A horn, such as our man wears, was always worn by a hayward, who used to blow it to warn off people from straying in the crops.",
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        "One whose occupation involved overseeing the sowing and harvesting of crops as well as protecting the crops from stray people or animals."
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          "sow"
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        "(historical) One whose occupation involved overseeing the sowing and harvesting of crops as well as protecting the crops from stray people or animals."
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  "word": "hayward"
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