A police officer or prison guard.
The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
A merlon.
To steal.
To adopt.
To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take.
To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
To earn by bad behavior.
Of a pimp: to recruit a prostitute into the stable.
To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
A bailiff.
A fish, the cobia.
A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign.
The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.
UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Athyma; distinguished from the false sergeants.
A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.
A servant in monastic offices.