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lawman(dictionary)

lawman (iou)



lawman noun. Pl. -men. OE.

Law (now Hist.). An officer in Anglo-Saxon England, spec. (a) a person whose official duty it was to declare the law; (b) In the five Danish boroughs, any of a number of magistrates or aldermen. OE.
Hist. The president of the supreme court in Orkney or Shetland. M16.
A man of law, a lawyer. Now rare. M16.
A law-enforcement officer; a sheriff, a policeman. colloq. M20.