different between implement vs catchpole

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin impl?mentum (“a filling up”), from Latin imple? (“I fill up”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?m?pl?-m?nt, IPA^(key): /??mpl?m?nt/

Noun

implement (plural implements)

1. A tool or instrument for working with.

   They carried an assortment of gardening implements in the truck.

   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 234:

     A man dreamt as follows: He saw two boys struggling—barrel-maker’s boys, to judge by the implements lying around.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:instrument

Translations

Etymology 2

From Scottish English or Scots implement (“fulfill”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?m?pl?-m?nt, IPA^(key): /??mpl?m?nt/

Verb

implement (third-person singular simple present implements, present participle implementing, simple past and past participle implemented)

2. to bring about; to put into practice; to carry out

Usage notes

• Nouns serving as grammatical objects that commonly collocate: plan, programme, strategy, policy, agreement, order, specification, etc.

Derived terms

• implementable
• implementation
• implementer

Translations

Further reading

• implement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• implement in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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.