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constable
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Word definitions for constable in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "chief household officer, justice of the peace," from Old French conestable (12c., Modern French connétable ), "steward, governor," principal officer of the Frankish king's household, from Late Latin comes stabuli , literally "count of the stable" ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context British NZ English) A police officer ranking below sergeant in most British/New Zealand police forces. (See also chief constable).
Usage examples of constable.
Rattisbon threatened him shrilly with the Municipal Corporation Aet of 1822 and looked about him for a constable.
Carrick, a natural son of their late king, the earls of Athole and Monteith, lord Hay of Errol, constable, and the lords Keith and Lindsey.
Chief Constable Riddle, who had hated Banks from the start, was even more pissed off at him than ever now.
Detective Constable David Sparkington, owner of the beadier pair of eyes.
As I sat down in a student desk the police had commandeered more classrooms I nodded amiably at her attendant constable, a Geordie whose hair was the colour of the flashing part of a Belisha beacon.
Constable Jordan in Da Nang a week ago, and he feels Binh Duc is probably responsible for the placement of the mine that killed Mrs.
Edward, Duke and Earl of Buckingham, Earl and Baron of Stafford, Prince of Brecknock, Count of Perche in Normandy, Knight of the Garter, hereditary Lord High Steward, and, in virtue of the blood of Bohun, Lord High Constable of England.
Chief Constable, wanting to know what other crime prevention measures could have been put in place for the cost of busting one high-profile bloke smoking a bit of dope in the privacy of his own home.
Right behind them were a couple of plainweave carpets that carried plainclothes constables.
Lord Constable of the Realm, Tinnis Catclaw, who had proved his courage during the Battle of Holt Mallburn.
At his insistence on this morning after the crime, the petty constable had taken the local cunning woman, old Mother Coddington, into custody.
Haggard special constables with white badges stood at the corners of every street.
Constable bent down, pulled off one of the lawyer s shoes and socks and wiped the blood off the table as best he could and covered the rest with documents and pads of paper.
The faker, closely held by the constable who had arrested him, and by a brother officer who had hurried up, gave the strange girl one look.
The constable spared Fawkes the details, and Fawkes did not demand them.