catchpoll
- a variation of catchpole.
Example Sentences
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The landlord immediately looked about for his ass, and saw it in the hands of another catchpoll, who had joined the alguazil's party.
From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Denmark resembles one of those respectable streets in which it is scarcely necessary to station a catchpoll, because the inhabitants would at once join to seize a thief.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
The gallant traitor did not linger for the governor's catchpoll to seize him.
From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by Venable, William Henry
On the present occasion, we cannot but flatter ourselves that we bear a much greater resemblance to a practical catchpoll than either Mr Mill or Mr Bentham.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
In the power of a vulgar catchpoll, on her way to a low sponging house, she saw herself borne helpless past the house that, until to-day, she had called her home!
From Sophia A Romance by Weyman, Stanley John
