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beatsman

noun

Etymology

From beat + -s- + -man.

  1. derived from *bautaną✻ — “to push, strike”
  2. derived from *bautan✻
  3. derived from bēatan — “to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”
  4. inherited from beten
  5. formed as beatsman — “beat + -s- + -man”

Definitions

  1. A policeman who walks the beat.

    • Police authorities are similarly aware that motor cars and wireless and infra-red photography and photo-telegraphy will not avail in the crime war without the familiar, slow-moving beatsman as the broad base of the whole organisation.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA