| 单词 | high constable |
| 释义 | > as lemmasHigh Constable High Constable n. an officer of a hundred or other large administrative district, appointed to act as conservator of the peace within his district, and to perform various other duties. (Abolished in 1869.)The office seems to have been originally established for military purposes, to raise the military force of the hundred in case of war or civil commotion; the duties attached to the office became in the course of time more of an administrative character.extracted from constablen.< as lemmas |
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