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Date "CATCHPOLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Catchpole A constable; a law officer whose business it was to apprehend criminals. Pole or poll means head, person; and the word means one who catches persons by the poll or neck. This was done by means of an instrument something like a shepherd's crook. "Cacchepoles, from catch and pole, because these officers lay hold of a man's neck." - Wiclif: New Testament (Acts xvi., Glossary). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Domain | Usage | |
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| "CATCHPOLE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CATCHPOLE" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CATCHPOLE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Catchpole | Last name | 100 | 74,291 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
catchpole | 2 |
catchpole ottery st | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CATCHPOLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bírósági végrehajtó (broker, bum, bumbailiff, sheriff's officer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | guilley glaish (lockman, tipstaff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atchpolecay Aprod (attendant, page, usher), Agent Poliţienesc. (various references) Borçluları Yakalayan Þerif Bürosu. (various references) Судовий Пристав, Судовий 'иконавець. (various references) ceisbwl (bailiff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CATCHPOLE": catchpoles. (additional references) | |
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"CATCHPOLE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cathole. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-h-l-o-p-t" | |
-1 letter: cachepot, catechol, potlache. | |
-2 letters: chaplet, cholate, cochlea, epochal, polecat, potlach, taphole. | |
-3 letters: accept, cachet, caplet, capote, chalet, chalot, chapel, cheapo, cloche, clothe, hepcat, loathe, locate, pelota, placet, pleach, thecal, toecap. | |
-4 letters: aleph, altho, cache, catch, cecal, chape, chapt, cheap, cheat, chela, clach, clapt, cleat, clept, cloth, coach, coact, coapt, copal, eclat, epact, epoch, haole. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-h-l-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: catchpoles. | |
+3 letters: chalcopyrite, pyrocatechol. | |
+4 letters: cephalometric, chalcopyrites, petrochemical, phallocentric, photochemical, phytochemical, pyrocatechols, pyrotechnical. | |
+5 letters: accomplishment, petrochemicals. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage Frequency 4. Names: Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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