A public officer in the United States with responsibility for certain law enforcement and administrative legal duties, such as making arrests and serving processes, usually for a particular county, the principal law-enforcement officer in a county, The chief officer of a shire or county, to whom is intrusted the execution of the laws, the serving of judicial writs and processes, and the preservation of the peace
a landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth, Formerly, in England, a freeholder; a yeoman; originally, a person distinguished from the common freeholder by the extent of his possessions, and by his eligibility to the dignities of sheriff, knight of the shire, etc; in later times, a small landholder, A medieval English freeholder of nonnoble birth holding extensive property
A flat, usually rectangular piece forming a raised, recessed, or framed part of the surface in which it is set, A board having switches or buttons to control an electric device, A piece of parchment or a schedule, containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff, transitive verb_ To form in or with panels, To decorate with panels, To cover or furnish with panels
The amount of service, use, or wear estimated by miles used or traveled, An allowance for travel expenses established at a specified rate per mile, An allowance or compensation for travel or conveyance reckoned by the mile; especially, payment allowed to a public functionary for the expenses of travel in the discharge of his duties according to the number of miles passed over_ as, the mileage of a sheriff, circuit judge, or member of Congress or of a legislature,
The control and care of a person or property, especially when granted by a court, The state of being detained or held under guard, especially by the police, A keeping; a guarding; care, watch, inspection, or detention, for preservation or security_ as, the prisoner was committed to the custody of the sheriff