policeman
/pəˈliːsmən/ noun A2- A police officer, usually a male.
- A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis.
- Any skipper of the genus Coeliades.
- Synonym of enforcer.
Plural policemen
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The country policeman was unnerved and troubled by the tremendous responsibility which had come so suddenly upon him.
The worthy country policeman shook his head.
The other trees of the forest did nothing to keep them back, so they made up their minds that only the first row of trees could bend down their branches, and that probably these were the policemen of the forest, and given this wonderful power in order to keep strangers out of it.
“We’d enough to do without lookin’ after him,” the policeman said, in an aggrieved voice.
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