Usually means: Law enforcement officer, local authority.
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  1. Constable, constable: Merriam-Webster
  2. constable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. constable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. constable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Constable, constable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Constable, constable: Wordnik
  7. constable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Constable, constable: Wiktionary
  9. constable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. constable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. constable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. constable, the constable: Dictionary.com
  13. constable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. constable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Constable (disambiguation), Constable (surname), Constable, The Constable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Constable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. constable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. constable: Rhymezone
  19. Constable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. constable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CONSTABLE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. constable: FreeDictionary.org
  23. constable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Constable: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. constable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CONSTABLE: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. constable: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. constable: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. constable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Constable: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. constable: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See constables as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Constable)

noun:  One holding the lowest rank in most Commonwealth police forces. (See also chief constable.)
noun:  (UK, law) A police officer or an officer with equivalent powers.
noun:  (historical) An officer of a noble court in the Middle Ages, usually a senior army commander. (See also marshal).
noun:  The warden of a castle.
noun:  (US) An elected or appointed public officer, usually at municipal level, responsible for maintaining order or serving writs and court orders.
noun:  (Channel Islands) An elected head of a parish (also known as a connétable)
noun:  A large butterfly, Dichorragia nesimachus, family Nymphalidae, of Asia.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To act as a constable or policeman.
noun:  An English surname originating as an occupation from Old French conestable (“constable”).
noun:  A town in Franklin County, New York; named for landowner William Constable.
noun:  John Constable, English painter.

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