[cf. Ger. kirch-, kirchenmeister.] dial. Southernized form of KIRK-MASTER, a northern equivalent of CHURCHWARDEN.

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[1429.  Test. Ebor. (1836), I. 417. To the kyrkmasters a nobill.]

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1484.  Churchw. Acc. Wigtoft, nr. Boston (Nichols, 1797), 77. John Brigge yonger, and John Barre Chirche Maisters of the paryshe chirche of Wigtoft.

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1566.  in Peacock, Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866), 74. Item the aulter stones broken for pavement … in the times of the forenamed churche Masters 1562.

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1886.  Cole, S. W. Lincoln. Gloss. (E. D. S.), s.v., They tell’d me he were Chu’chmester to-year.

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