A parish or district official appointed to keep order in the streets. Also see quot. 1858.
1728. J. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., II. (ed. 29), 159. Thomas Cowdell, Robert Davis, Street-Keepers.
1837. Dickens, Pickw., xli. I think I can see him now, a coming up the Strand between the two street-keepers, a little sobered by the bruising, [etc.].
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Street-keeper, a street-ward; a beadle having the charge of a private street or thoroughfare.
1887. Pall Mall Gaz., 10 Oct., 7/2. The Wandsworth District Board of Works has confirmed the appointment of the street-keeper for a further period of three months.
