(n.) One of the officers (usually two) in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service.
(n.) A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Church Times reported that John Secker, churchwarden of St Oswald's Church, Lythe, in Whitby, wrote to Dr Sentamu on 28 November to protest against the move and to complain that many people felt "aggrieved and overlooked" by it.
(2) The ungenial contempt of more secular Etonians is nicely captured by an entry in Alan Clark's diaries about Michael Alison, a Tory politician who was also a churchwarden at HTB: "Saintly but useless.
(3) Those glum doomsayers, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu , defence chief Ehud Barak, and president Shimon Peres , are frantically ringing alarm bells like a trio of demented churchwardens.
(4) North's stance on women in the church had angered many in the archdeaconery of Cleveland, with one churchwarden complaining that the choice of a third successive traditionalist as bishop of Whitby had left those in favour of women's ordination feeling "puzzled, dismayed and very disappointed".
Sidesman
Definition:
(n.) A party man; a partisan.
(n.) An assistant to the churchwarden; a questman.