Catchpoll

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Alternative form of catchpole.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A bailiff's assistant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A tax-gatherer.
  • n. A sheriff's officer, bailiff, constable, or other person whose duty is to make arrests.
  • Word Usage
    "Williamstown, and printed a quotation from that discourse, which, as I thought, a thief or catchpoll might well consider as establishing a fair presumption that it was so borrowed."