Synonyms:
constable
Meaning: a lawman with less authority and jurisdiction than a sheriff
Usage examples
The constable said 'Well!
There was a constable to spare.
Is there a constable to spare to take care of him?"
You'll have to get help," he went on, turning to the constable.
He gave the constable a punch just where the latter kept his lunch.
The noise of the fray alarmed the neighbours who, finding they could not pacify the combatants, sent for the constable.
On his way down the prisoner escaped from the constable. This type of hair-trigger gunmen at once fled the country when Begbie came.
Sir John Gage, constable of the Tower, when he led her to execution, desired her to bestow on him some small present which he might keep as a perpetual memorial of her.
Then a private resident of an adjoining place informed the local policeman that the baker's boy should not be allowed to read while driving, and insisted that it was the constable's duty to catch him in the act, and take him to the police court at Alfredston, and get him fined for dangerous practices on the highway.