catchpole

• (Lack of brains and / or genitalia is probable.) catchpole —  Fileforum
• The catchpole was strangely terrified at this account, but hoping that the servant did not know him to be one of the same profession, he walked away with a seeming carelessness, till he thought himself out of sight, and then looking round and finding the way clear, he threw off his coat and ran for his life, not resting, nor so much as looking behind him, till he came to a village about three or four miles off; where, when he had recovered breath, he told the story of his danger and escape, just as he apprehended it to be. —  Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
• The idea is rather quaintly expressed in the original thus--"Though thou hast sent me no summons, love has, of his own accord, acted the part of a catchpole (or sheriff's officer), and will not release me." —  The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
• He was sure that they had not soured on him because he was a state catchpole. —  When Egypt Went Broke
• Sergeant, or catchpole, character of, 124. —  Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters

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