• (a.) The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable.
Bors'hold`er noun [ Middle English borsolder ; probably from Anglo-Saxon borg , gen. borges , pledge + ealdor elder. See Borrow , and Elder , adjective ] (Eng. Law) The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough...