Bailiwick

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created by Webster 1913

(lede) by everyone (2.6 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Feb 26 2000 at 19:40:34

Area of authority, interest or skill; as,
Quantum mechanics was his bailiwick.
English bailiff (deputy sheriff) and wick(village).

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:01:53

Bail"i*wick (?), n. [Bailie, bailiff + wick a village.] Law

The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.

Bailiff	English counties	There Goes Rhymin' Simon	Channel Islands
If the government wasn't involved in the Sept 11 attacks, what was it doing?	Connecticut	Baize	Jersey
Guernsey	skill	iambic pentameter	Quantum mechanics
Freehold	Magna Carta	Wick	A big decision
Omnibus	Crown Dependency	daVinci	Bailiffwick
Kai	Poi	Sark	Michelle Yeoh

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