English Explanatory Dictionary

Master of the Rolls

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The President of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Civil Division, and Head of Civil Justice; a judge who is second in seniority in England and Wales only to the Lord Chief Justice.
  2. A baker.

Word forms

Master of the Rolls Masters of the Rolls

Etymology

The sense of a baker is a pun alluding to bread rolls.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on M Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary