† cachekown.
Scottish. Obsolete.
A cow-catcher or cattle-pounder; hence gen. a bailiff. Cf. catchpole n.1
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1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Prol. 136 Sum wald be court man, sum clerk, and sum a cachekow, Sum knycht, sum capitane, sum Caiser, sum King.
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