lawman
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noun- 1.
(historical)(law, historical) A lawspeaker: a declarer of the law.
Đồng nghĩa: lawspeaker
- 2.
(historical)(law, historical) One of 12 magistrates in certain Danish boroughs of England empowered with soc and sac over their own households.
Đồng nghĩa: lageman, lagman
- 3.
(Orkney, Shetland)(law, Orkney and Shetland) The presiding justice of the supreme court.
Đồng nghĩa: lawman-general, lagman
- 4.
(rare)A man of the law: a lawyer.
Đồng nghĩa: attorney, counsel, abogado, advocate, attorney, avocat, counsel, counselor, latitat, lawman, lawyer, legal representative, limb of the law, man of law
- 5.
(informal)An officer of the law: a law-enforcement officer.
Đồng nghĩa: bobby, cop, 5-O, alphabet, barney, beatsman, bizzie, bluebottle, bluecoat, blue heeler, blue meanie, bobby, body snatcher, bogey, boy in blue, bull, bullyman, buttons, centenier, charpering omi, chazzer, cobbler, cop, copper, cozzer, cracker, crusher, crowns, dibble, fed, filth, finest, finger, five-o, flatfoot, flatty, fuzz, garda, gendarme, glowie, guardian of the peace, harman, harman-beck, Inspector Knacker, jack, jackboot, jake, John Law, John Q. Law, Johnny Hopper, lawman, mee-maw, monarch, Mr Plod, mutton shunter, nuthook, oinker, Officer Friendly, Old Bill, one-time, PC Plod, pig, piggy, peeler, plod, police, police officer, policeman, policeperson, polis, po-po, raw lobster, roller, rozzer, scufter, slop, swine, statie, twelve, tyre biter, unboiled lobster, walloper, wooden-top
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From Middle English laweman, laȝaman (as a man's name, Laȝamon, Layamon), from Old English lahmann, borrowed from Old Norse lǫgmaðr. In present use as a law-enforcement officer, law + -man.