The worker or official of a manor who maintains the fences and enclosures, making sure livestock does not stray from its fenced-in area nor poachers from theirs.
"On the morning itself, the tenants (or suitors as they were called) appeared at the manor court, and stood around on the rush-strewn floor of the court room. The various manorial officials--the hayward, the ale-tasters, the bailiffs and the tithing-men--also took their places, and with the cry of 'Silence!' echoing through the hall, the cellarer entered, and sat at the table on the dais, his clerk at his side."
Six Medieval Men & Women, "Richard Bradwater," H. S. Bennett (1955).
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