4. One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets,
who range over the country, and often fight on foot.
5. The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of
a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to
walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its
limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for
the forest, etc. [Eng.]