Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Borsholder

Borsholder ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Old English borsolder; prob. from Anglo-Saxon borg, gen. borges, pledge + ealdor elder. See Borrow, and Elder, a.]

(Eng. Law) The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable. — Spelman