Reverse Dictionary: BAILIFF

ADJECTIVES
► BALIVAL pert. to a bailiff or his office → 1854 

NOUNS
► BAILIRIC a district or place under the jurisdiction of a bailie or bailiff; a bailiwick → 1570 obs.
► BAILIVATE the office of a bailiff → 1721 obs.
► BAILLIE ► BAILLY the jurisdiction, authority, charge, or office of a bailie or bailiff; jurisdiction or charge committed to an officer, delegated authority; stewardship → 1305 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ADAM a bailiff, a sergeant → 1591 sl.
► BAILIE ► BAILY ► BALY ► BAYLE a bailiff → 1297 obs.
► BAILIER a bailiff or sheriff’s officer → 1834 Eng. dial.
► BANDOG a bailiff or bailiff’s assistant → 1605 UK sl.
► BANDOG-BAILIFF a bailiff or bailiff’s assistant → 1700 
► BEADLE an under-bailiff; a messenger of justice, a warrant officer → 1000 obs.
► BEAGLE a bailiff; a sheriff’s officer; a beadle; one who makes it his business to scent out or hunt down; a constable → 1559 
► BIFFS bailiffs → 1895 Aust. criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
► BUMMER a bum-bailiff; a bailiff empowered to execute writs and warrants, esp. to collect debts or arrest debtors for non-payment → 1675 obs.
► CACHEKOW a bailiff; a cow-stealer → 1513 Sc. obs.
► CACHEPOLLUS a bailiff, a sergeant, or any that arrests upon an action → 1717 obs. (Bk.)
► CACHEREL ► CACHERELE a bailiff; a catchpoll; a beagle; an inferior officer of justice → 1325 obs.
► CANDY-MAN in the north of England a bum-bailiff or process-server; orig. a seller of candy; ‘in the great strike of coal miners in 1844, when a large number of extempore bailiffs were employed to eject the miners wholesale from the cottages, there were recognized among them some well-known sellers of ‘dandy candy’ from the Newcastle streets, whose appellation was transferred to persons employed in the unpopular office’ → 1863 
► CATCH-ROGUE a constable or bailiff → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DAVY DEBET ► DAVY DEBT a bailiff → 1570 
► ENGINEERS AND STOKERS bailiffs → 2004 Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘brokers’ (Bk.)
► FACTOR a bailiff; a land-agent or land-steward; one who has the charge and manages the affairs of an estate; the manager of a landed estate who collects the rents, lets the lands, etc. → 1561 obs. exc. Sc.
► FARMER a bailiff; a steward; one who cultivates land for the owner → 1382 obs.
► FOOL-FINDER a bailiff → 1796 sl., obs. (Bk.)
► HAWK a bailiff or watchman; a police officer; also, a prison guard → 1785 sl.
► HIND a bailiff or steward on a farm (in some parts of England) → 1495 
► LEGALIST a bailiff; an officer of the law → 1835 jocular usage
► LURCHER ► LURCHER OF THE LAW the lowest rank of bailiff, a ‘bum bailiff’ → 1785 sl.
► MOABITE a bailiff; a constable → 1699 sl. obs.
► MOOR a bailiff of a farm → 1706 Eng. dial.
► MYRMIDON a police officer, bailiff, or other law enforcement officer → 1699 chiefly derogatory
► NABBER a bailiff or constable; a police officer → 1810 sl.
► NABBING-CULL a bailiff; a constable; a police officer → 1780 sl.
► NAPPING BULL a bailiff → 1741 UK criminals’ sl.
► PUTTOCK a greedy, grasping, or rapacious person; a petty officer of justice; a bailiff → 1500 derogatory
► RAM SKIN a bailiff → E19 Anglo-Irish 
► SAFFO a bailiff → 1605 
► TAPPER a court bailiff → 1796 UK sl.
► TOPSMAN a bailiff; a head man; a principal servant; the chief drover in charge of a herd of cattle on the road → 1825 Eng. dial.
► WAR-HAWK a bailiff or summons server → 1880 Eng. dial. (Bk.)