different between debtor vs catchpole

English

Alternative forms

• debtour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English dettour, from Old French detour, from Latin debitor. Doublet of debitor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?t.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?t.?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?det.?/
• Rhymes: -?t?, -?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: debt?or

Noun

debtor (plural debtors)

1. (economics) A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt

   Antonym: creditor

2. (law) One who owes another anything, or is under obligation, arising from express agreement, implication of law, or principles of natural justice, to pay money or to fulfill some other obligation; in bankruptcy or similar proceedings, the person who is the subject of the proceeding.

Antonyms

• creditor

Translations

Anagrams

• betrod

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kat?p??l/

Etymology 1

From Old French chacepol (“one who chases fowls”) (or a northern variant thereof).

Alternative forms

• catchpoll

Noun

catchpole (plural catchpoles)

1. (obsolete) A taxman, one who gathers taxes.
2. A sheriff’s officer, usually one who arrests debtors.

Translations

Etymology 2

catch +? pole

Alternative forms

• catch-pole

Noun

catchpole (plural catchpoles)

1. (historical) An implement formerly used for seizing and securing a man who would otherwise be out of reach.
   • 1843, Henry Shaw, Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, W Pickering 1843:

     The use of the catch-pole is said to have been to take horsemen in battle by the neck and drag them from their horses.

See also

• myrmidon

References

• catchpole in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.