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单词 catchpolery
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ˈcatchpolery
ˈcatchpolery n. Obsolete rare the system in which debt is collected by a catchpole (sense 2); catchpoles collectively. [After Old French chassipollerie (13th cent.), post-classical Latin chacipolleria (13th cent.), cachepolleria (14th cent. in British sources), all denoting the system.]
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1835 Fraser's Mag. Aug. 171/2 All the duns, bums..and the other accursed components of that diabolical system called ‘Catchpollery’.
1890 J. Payne tr. M. Bandello Novels VI. iii. xlviii. 139 The sergeants of the watch having assailed him to put him in prison, Giovan Battista..clapped his hand to his sword and..put all that catchpolery to flight and rescued the old man.
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