English

Alternative forms

• muringer

Noun

murenger ‎(plural murengers)

1. An officer in charge of the town walls, or their repairs.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, p. 5.

     The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape?

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editor (1884–1928) A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697; and The Oxford English Dictionary; being a Corrected Re-issue with an Introduction, Supplement, and Bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (the First Supplement), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933, OCLC 2748467.
• murenger in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• murenger in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911