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Webster 1913 Edition
Waywode
Way′wode
,Noun.
Originally, the title of a military commander in various Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars, and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers.
[Written also
vaivode
, voivode
, waiwode
, and woiwode
.] Webster 1828 Edition
Waywode
WAYWODE
, WAIWODE,Noun.
1.
In the Ottoman empire, the governor of a small town or province, which not forming a pashawlic, is the appendage of some great officer; also, a mussulman charged with the collection of taxes, or with the police of a place.2.
In Poland, the governor of a province.