subs. (old and American).—See quots.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. HAMLET … a High Constable.
1725. A New Canting Dictionary, s.v. HAMLET, a High-Constable.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. HAMLET. A high constable. Cant.
1791. R. GOADBY, The Life and Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew. HAMLET, a high-constable.
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v. HAMLET. A captain of police.
