Dictionary entry

Headborough

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Head″bor‐oughHead″bor‐row } (hĕd″bŭr‐ō̍), n. 1. The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; — called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. Blackstone.

2. (Modern Law) A petty constable.