noun.
One who overlooks; a superintendent; a supervisor; one who has the care or superintendence of any matter.
noun.
Specifically, one who oversees or superintends workmen, especially slaves; one who has charge, under the owner or manager, of the work on a plantation, or, in Australia, on a station.
noun.
A reviser; a critic.
noun.
An executor or an adviser to an executor, formerly sometimes named in wills.