| 单词 | shoulder-clapper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshoulder-clapper shoulder-clapper n. an officer charged with the arrest of an offender, a bailiff, sheriff's officer. shoulder-clapping adjs. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > law-enforcement or peace-officer > [noun] > one whose duty is arresting offenders provosta1382 alguazila1530 prévôt1577 shoulder-clappera1616 provo1692 trap1705 felon-setter1864 arrester1880 a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. ii. 37 He's in Tartar limbo..: A back friend, a shoulder-clapper [hath him] . View more context for this quotation < as lemmas |
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