Usually means: Officer tasked with maintaining order.
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  1. pleaseman: Collins English Dictionary
  2. pleaseman: Wordnik
  3. pleaseman: Wiktionary
  4. Pleaseman: Dictionary.com
  5. pleaseman: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  7. Pleaseman: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. Pleaseman: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. pleaseman: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Pleaseman: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (obsolete) An officious fellow; a pickthank.

Similar:
pickthank, preachman, pickeerer, picker, panton, parish prig, pilcher, pert, puckle, plinger, more...

Opposite:
criminal, offender, lawbreaker, delinquent

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Similar:
pickthank, preachman, pickeerer, picker, panton, parish prig, pilcher, pert, puckle, plinger, more...

Opposite:
criminal, offender, lawbreaker, delinquent



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