catchpole

English - Turkish

Definition of catchpole in English Turkish dictionary

{i} borçluları yakalayan şerif bürosu

(isim) borçluları yakalayan şerif bürosu

English - English

Definition of catchpole in English English dictionary

A taxman, one who gathers taxes

An implement formerly used for seizing and securing a man who would otherwise be out of reach

The use of the catch-pole is said to have been to take horsemen in battle by the neck and drag them from their horses.

A sheriff’s officer, usually one who arrests debtors

The game of tennis

A sheriff's officer, usually one who arrests debtors

{i} law-enforcement clerk, deputy of a sheriff who arrests persons for debt (Archaic)

Hyphenation

catch·pole

Etymology

(noun.) before 12th century. From Medieval Latin cacepollus, Old French chacepol (“one who chases fowls”) (or a northern variant thereof).