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- noun Plural form of
catchpole .
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Examples
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District Wildlife Conservation officer Brad Kreider and his deputy, Tom Harrington, stalked the beast, grabbed it using catchpoles, taped its mouth shut and tossed it into a bear trap, Kreider said.
Gator Update (Pennsylvania Edition) Bill Crider 2007
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District Wildlife Conservation officer Brad Kreider and his deputy, Tom Harrington, stalked the beast, grabbed it using catchpoles, taped its mouth shut and tossed it into a bear trap, Kreider said.
Archive 2007-09-09 Bill Crider 2007
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His lordship, therefore, in order to compel him to it, took out writs against him, and his house was continually surrounded with catchpoles for the space of two whole years.
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The other catchpoles were making addresses to Panurge, Epistemon, Gymnast, and others, entreating them charitably to bestow upon their carcasses a small beating, for otherwise they were in danger of keeping a long fast; but none of them had a stomach to it.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For, on the word of a gentleman, I had rather bear in war one hundred blows on my helmet in the service of my country than be once cited by these knavish catchpoles merely to humour this same gorbellied prior.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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How Friar John made trial of the nature of the catchpoles.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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How Friar John made trial of the nature of the catchpoles.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Rome a world of folks get an honest livelihood by poisoning, drubbing, lambasting, stabbing, and murthering; but the catchpoles earn theirs by being thrashed; so that if they were long without a tight lambasting, the poor dogs with their wives and children would be starved.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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This said, he went on shore, put his hand in his fob, and took out twenty ducats; then said with a loud voice, in the hearing of a shoal of the nation of catchpoles, Who will earn twenty ducats for being beaten like the devil?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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What harm had done those poor devils the catchpoles?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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