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paˈtroller
[f. patrol v. + -er1.]
One on patrolling duty.
1744Bristol (Va.) Vestry Bk. (1898) 118 To Burwell Green for his Levy, Being a patroler, 50. 1879Tourgee Fool's Err. xxxviii. 281 He ordered..some patrollers to ride up and down the streets and prevent any interruption. 1901B. T. Washington Up from Slavery 77 The ‘patrollers’ were bands of white men..organized largely for the purposes of regulating the conduct of the slaves at night. 1938W. Faulkner Unvanquished 18 Into this room they would be fetched to face the Patroller. 1968[see ketch v.2]. 1972R. Adams Watership Down xlix. 401 Without Campion, probably not one rabbit would have got back to Efrafa. As it was, all his skill as a patroller could not bring home half of those who had come to Watership. |