catchpoleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Old French chacepol (“one who chases fowls”) (または a northern variant thereof).

別の表記

• catchpoll

名詞

catchpole (複数形 catchpoles)

1. (obsolete) A taxman, one who gathers taxes.
   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 247:

     With two such catchpoles as Henry and Uncle Fred at his heels there was nothing left for Grandpa Piper but to sign his abdication to the drapery business.

2. A sheriff’s officer, usually one who arrests debtors.

参考

• myrmidon

語源 2

catch +‎ pole

別の表記

• catch-pole

名詞

catchpole (複数形 catchpoles)

1. (historical) An implement formerly used for seizing and securing a person who would otherwise be out of reach.
   • 1843, Henry Shaw, Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, W Pickering:

     The use of the catch-pole is said to have been to take horsemen in battle by the neck and drag them from their horses.

参照

• “catchpole”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.