lawmen

Noun

lawman (plural lawmen)

1. (historical) A lawspeaker: a declarer of the law.

   Synonyms:

   lawspeaker

2. (historical) One of 12 magistrates in certain Danish boroughs of England empowered with soc and sac over their own households.

   Synonyms:

   lageman, lagman

3. (Orkney, Shetland) The presiding justice of the supreme court.
   • From the twelfth century Shetland had been administered directly by the Norwegian crown through the 'foud', rather than forming part of the patrimony of a great aristocratic estate. The foud appointed 'underfouds' and the Shetlands evolved their own elected officers, a 'lawman' and parish...1983, Paul Thompson, Tony Wailey, Trevor Lummis, History Workshop Series, Living the Fishing, Routledge & Kegan Paul

   Synonyms:

   lawman-general, lagman

4. (rare) A man of the law: a lawyer.

   Synonyms:

   attorney, counsel, abogado, advocate, avocat, counselor, latitat, lawyer, legal representative, limb of the law

5. (informal) An officer of the law: a law-enforcement officer.
   • "Fill your hand, you sonuvabitch," the old lawman cries, clamping the reins of his horse between his teeth and filling his own hands with six-gun and repeater.1979 June 25, Richard Schickel, “Show Business: Duke: Images from a Lifetime”, in TIME, archived from the original on 13 May 2011

   Synonyms:

   bobby, cop, 5-O, alphabet, barney, beatsman, bizzie, bluebottle, bluecoat, blue heeler

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