sergeant
B1Substantiv/US /sˈɑrdʒənt/ SÄRJ-ənt; UK /sˈɑrdʒənt/ SÄRJ-ənt/
Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders.
