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catchpolls
n. (plural of catchpoll English)
Usage examples of "catchpolls".
The husbands, in their defence, almost invariably pleaded justification, and some of them told such tales of studied atrocity at the domestic hearth, both psychic and physical, that the learned magistrate discharged them with tears in his eyes and the very catchpolls in the courtroom had to blow their noses.
I don't fight catchpolls, and if you give me trouble my men are yonder.
As to the catchpolls, let them free to hunt about and lie in the ravines and bushes of the earth, to capture those that are debtors to the infernal crown.