field police
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.98 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A police force charged with maintaining order beyond towns and other settlements, in the countryside or bush.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "He was some years under my orders when I was police-magistrate of the Oatlands district, during which period he acted successively as my assistant-clerk, constable of the field-police, leader of several roving bands in quest of the aborigines, and one of the directors of the Oatland volunteers."
- "Arthur had established a field police in 1825, with an initial complement of 300 men."