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."