wardmaster means an alderman or director of a city ward in the Netherlands or a Dutch colony. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
noun
- An alderman or director of a city ward in the Netherlands or a Dutch colony.“Elections as wardmaster or commissioner on the council were open to all ethnicities but not to all classes, or to women.”
- The superintendent of a hospital ward.“Well, I have been talking with Lawrence Worster, my Surgeon-in-Charge, who is a very good fellow. His sick-list is not bad now, and he does not mean to have it bad; but he says that he is not pleased with the ways of his ward-masters; and it was his suggestion, not mine, mark you, that I should see if one or two of the Sanitary women would not come as far as this to make things decent.”