wildgrave

English

Etymology

From German Wildgraf or Dutch wildgraaf. See wild, and compare margrave.

Noun

wildgrave (plural wildgraves)

1. A waldgrave, or head forest keeper.
   • 1820, Walter Scott, “[Ballads and Lyrical Pieces.] The Wild Huntsmen”, in The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Company] for Arch[ibald] Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 217:

     The Wildgrave winds his bugle horn, / To horse, to horse! halloo, halloo!

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “wildgrave”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)