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Steward   /stˈuərd/   Listen
noun
Steward  n.  
1.
A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep accounts, and the like. "Worthy to be stewards of rent and land." "They came near to the steward of Joseph's house." "As good stewards of the manifold grace of God."
2.
A person employed in a hotel, or a club, or on board a ship, to provide for the table, superintend the culinary affairs, etc. In naval vessels, the captain's steward, wardroom steward, steerage steward, warrant officers steward, etc., are petty officers who provide for the messes under their charge.
3.
A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church.
4.
In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
5.
In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
Lord high steward, formerly, the first officer of the crown; afterward, an officer occasionally appointed, as for a coronation, or upon the trial of a peer. (Eng.)



verb
Steward  v. t.  To manage as a steward. (Obs.)






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"Steward" Quotes from Famous Books



... found two very fair gilt bowls of silver, which were the pilot's. To whom our General said, Senor Pilot, you have here two silver cups, but I must needs have one of them; which the pilot, because he could not otherwise choose, yielded unto, and gave the other to the steward of our General's ship. When this pilot departed from us, his boy said thus unto our General: Captain, our ship shall be called no more the Cacafuego, but the Cacaplata, and your ship shall be called the Cacafuego. Which pretty speech of the pilot's boy ministered matter of laughter to ...
— Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World • Francis Pretty

... read of his doings in the newspaper. I drove through your fields yesterday. Your potatoes are not all in yet. Your steward didn't get ...
— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various

... the eldest, John, a brevet lieutenant-colonel in the 81st regiment, was killed in a duel, in July, 1801, at the Cape of Good Hope, by Captain M——,[149] in consequence of his having, as steward of a public ball, very properly resisted the introduction, by his antagonist, of a female of disreputable character. The second brother, Ferdinand, a lieutenant of the 60th regiment, was slain in the defence of Baton Rouge, on the Mississippi, 21st September, ...
— The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock • Ferdinand Brock Tupper

... 1281, in which William Barrett was killed. But in spite of their defeat, the Barretts held the upper hand of the country for many a long year, and the priest began to smile, thinking of the odd story the old woodman had told him about the Barretts' steward, Sgnorach bhuid bhearrtha, 'saving your reverence's presence,' the old man said, and, unable to translate the words into English fit for the priest's ears, he explained that they meant a glutton and a ...
— The Lake • George Moore

... like to see M. Pigot, of the Paris Service du Surete" he said. "Perhaps you will be so kind as to have a steward take ...
— The Mystery Of The Boule Cabinet - A Detective Story • Burton Egbert Stevenson


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