Catchpoll
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
A tax-gatherer.
noun.
A sheriff's officer, bailiff, constable, or other person whose duty is to make arrests.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A bailiff's assistant.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
Alternative form of
catchpole
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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."