subs. (old).—A bailiff; a PHILISTINE (q.v.).—GROSE (1785).

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  1811.  GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.

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  1859.  G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v. MOABITES. Constables.

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