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catchpole

/kach-pohl/US // ˈkætʃˌpoʊl //UK // (ˈkætʃˌpəʊl) //

捕鱼杆,接球杆,抓斗,捕手

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a petty officer of justice, especially one arresting persons for debt.

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Examples

  • The usual forms of the court having been gone through, Margaret Catchpole was again placed at the bar.

  • Thus ended the career of Margaret Catchpole in England, where her virtues will long be remembered, together with her crimes.

  • About a mile from Basche's seat, the catchpole found himself somewhat out of sorts.

  • Thinking that they might be related to the catchpole that was bastinadoed, we asked them the occasion of their grief.

  • That numerical day, as chance would have it, came an old fat ruddy catchpole.