To lay fast hold of, put under arrest.

transitive. With a person as object. Also intransitive. Now chiefly historical. Without construction. Now rare.

transitive. To capture (a person), esp. to arrest, apprehend; to take into custody. Now rare (U.S. colloquial in later use).

transitive. To apprehend (a person charged with an offence); to arrest.

esp. To capture, seize, lay hold upon, or apprehend by legal authority; ‘to restrain a man of his liberty, obliging him to be obedient to the law’.

transitive. To arrest, capture (a person).

To lay hold of (a person); esp. to arrest, apprehend by legal authority; = attach, v. 1a.

To confiscate (property); to apprehend (a prisoner); = seize, v. 5.

transitive. To seize by legal authority; to arrest, apprehend.

Obscure or uncertain senses. ? To arrest, imprison. Obsolete.

To arrest, apprehend (a person). Cf. 6b.

to lay (also set, clap,etc.) (a person) by the heels: to put in irons or the stocks; to fetter, arrest, or confine. Similarly to have (a person) b…

transitive. To seize, capture; to arrest, apprehend.

To seize (a person) in name of law, to arrest.

slang. transitive. To apprehend or arrest (a person). Now U.S.

transitive.

transitive. To seize or take hold of (a person). Later: to apprehend or arrest (a criminal or suspect) (originally U.S.). Cf. finger, n. phrases…

to make stay of: to put a stop to (an action); to arrest (a person); to intercept (goods, etc.) in transit; to stop the circulation of (a book).

transitive. To lay an embargo upon (ships or goods); to sequestrate, confiscate; to arrest (persons).

transitive. To arrest.

transitive. To represent. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To seize, arrest, grasp; to apprehend mentally. Now rare.

To lay (persons or property) under embargo.

transitive. To seize, catch; to arrest; to steal. Cf. nab, v.2 1 2.

transitive. To catch (a criminal, etc.) and take into custody; to apprehend, arrest; to imprison.

transitive. To take (a person) into custody, to arrest; to catch, apprehend. Obsolete.

transitive. slang. To arrest (a person). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. slang. To arrest; (of an officer of the law) to catch or seize hold of; to charge with an offence; to convict. Frequently in passive.

transitive. To seize, lay hold of (a person); to arrest. Obsolete.

transitive. slang and colloquial. To arrest, catch, apprehend, take into custody.

transitive. colloquial (originally slang). Originally: to arrest, take into custody; esp. to apprehend and bring before a magistrate. Later in…

To ‘collar’, capture, or arrest (a person).

colloquial and slang. transitive. To catch, take unawares; to apprehend. Now: spec. (of the police) to arrest, take into custody (slang).

slang. transitive. Of the police, etc.: to arrest (a person); to single out for investigation, stop for questioning. Now chiefly British.

slang. To take into custody, ‘nab’.

To catch, capture, to secure. transitive. slang. To apprehend (a person); (also) to incriminate, convict.

transitive. To take into custody.

transitive. To capture, arrest, or imprison (a criminal, enemy soldier, etc.). colloquial.

To catch, apprehend.

To arrest (someone). Also in to tap on the shoulder. slang.

slang. To arrest; to seize.

figurative. An arrest; so †to put the collar on, to arrest. Cf. sense 8 below. U.S. Criminals' and Police slang.

To arrest.

transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). Of a police officer: to take (a person) into custody, to arrest. Cf. to pull in at pull, v. phrasal verbs.

transitive. To deposit (property) in pawn; hence (originally in passive), to put away privily, to imprison, arrest.

transitive. Originally (Military): to capture, seize (a soldier, an enemy vessel, etc.). Later more generally (colloquial): to take into custody…

transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To arrest (a person). Cf. sense 28a.

transitive. To arrest, take into custody.

Criminals' slang. transitive. To arrest.

Underworld slang. To arrest (a person); to raid (an establishment).

In figurative or allusive phrases. Miscellaneous phrases (see quots.). to put the sleeve on (someone): (a) to beg or borrow money from (someone)…

Originally U.S. transitive. To arrest, apprehend, take into custody, esp. in relation to illegal drugs. Cf. bust, n.3 6.

transitive. North American. To arrest, catch in a criminal act. Frequently in to get popped.

Black English (chiefly U.S.). intransitive and transitive. Frequently with on. To attack physically; to persecute, intimidate; also spec., to arrest.