Crossword clues for patrolman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Patrolman \Pa*trol"man\, n.; pl. Patrolmen. One who patrols; a watchman; especially, a policeman who patrols a particular precinct of a town or city.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A police officer, especially a junior one who does patrol instead of detection or supervising other policemen.
WordNet
n. a policeman who patrols a given region [syn: flatfoot]
Usage examples of "patrolman".
Silverstein, one of the night patrolmen, was especially interested in the alligator limb that had been brought to the veterinarian for examination.
Apparently they drove west into Utah because about daylight a Utah Highway Patrolman tries to stop a speeding truck on Route 262 west of Aneth, and they shoot holes in his radiator.
Miserly and a patrolman named Leonard Chatoian had made life so difficult that the Angels were already planning the big move to Oakland.
The two patrolmen were taking the shortest way back into the city centre, along the state highway that parallels the A14 autostrada from Ancona and the Adriatic coast, looping through the unlovely dormitory suburbs to the north of Bologna to connect with the spinal cord of the Ai.
So at noon on Tuesday, September 25, with James Meredith and the federals on their way, Governor Ross Barnett marched down the steps of the yellow-domed Capitol and across the street to the Woolfolk Building, flanked by a Highway Patrolman and a pack of aides.
Highway Patrolmen, Governor Barnett could now field more than 1,000 armed men, not counting local police and civilian volunteers.
Mixed with the medley of strollers who traversed Chinatown were blue-uniformed patrolmen.
Small red dots indicated where armed patrolmen were stationed, and thin red lines showed the patterns they walked.
I was thinking of offering him a cigarette when the door of the truck opened and the French patrolman helped a very pale-looking Lotte Hartmann to climb up beside me.
Wilson related the story, very factually, very coldly, how the werewolves had wounded a patrolman out searching for evidence, how this had lured them into an ambush, the escape on scooters just at the moment Wilson pieced the thing together, the subsequent discovery of the M.
Highway Patrolman who believed Peter Wohl to be the devil reincarnate.
Was the patrolman in collusion with this gang of bikers against the foolish foreigner?
The patrolman had noticed that the man had been paying rapt attention to an almost identical vehicle in a closeby space.
I saw it was only Cap Deets, the night patrolman, in one of the city cars.
There were perhaps sixty members of the force present already, about evenly divided between detectives and uniformed patrolmen.