keymaster

noun

keymaster

noun

Etymology From key + master.

1

A person in charge of a key or keys.

  • Sometimes, however, we have the archaic box with three locks, so frequent among the gilds; and in such cases members served in rotation as "keymasters," or, as we should now say, trustees.1906, Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, Industrial Democracy, page 6:

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