"Peeler" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1839, Dennis Burrowes Kelly, The manor of Glenmore; or, The Irish peasant, by a member of the Irish bar",
          "text": "The rest, on the contrary, the rather congratulated themselves on having parted with such suspicious company; -- and the little tailor had scarcely time to enunciate his advice, \"to be chatting and walking on, as if they weren't thinking of or minding them at all,\" — when the sergeant of the party coolly took his little self by the collar, while the remaining Peelers, surrounding the others, made them severally captives.",
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          "ref": "1840, Henry Cockton, The life and adventures of Valentine Vox, the ventriloquist, page 159",
          "text": "It at once became abundantly manifest, that those six Peelers had arrived with some object in view; and before the Sovereign People had time even to guess what that object might be, one of the Peelers very coolly depreived the horse of his nose-bag; another just as coolly returned the bit to his mouth; and a third, with equal coolness, go hold of the reins, when a fourth, who was certainly not quite so cool, did, by virtue of the application of a short round truncheon, persuade the passive animal to move on.",
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          "ref": "2008, Fionnuala Maccurtain, Remember It's for Ireland: A Family Memoir of Tomas Maccurtain",
          "text": "The Peelers in their searches were always threatening, abusive, bad mannered and even threatened to shoot the women and were very disrespectful.",
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        "(Ireland, slang) Alternative form of peeler (policeman)."
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          "ref": "1839, Dennis Burrowes Kelly, The manor of Glenmore; or, The Irish peasant, by a member of the Irish bar",
          "text": "The rest, on the contrary, the rather congratulated themselves on having parted with such suspicious company; -- and the little tailor had scarcely time to enunciate his advice, \"to be chatting and walking on, as if they weren't thinking of or minding them at all,\" — when the sergeant of the party coolly took his little self by the collar, while the remaining Peelers, surrounding the others, made them severally captives.",
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          "ref": "1840, Henry Cockton, The life and adventures of Valentine Vox, the ventriloquist, page 159",
          "text": "It at once became abundantly manifest, that those six Peelers had arrived with some object in view; and before the Sovereign People had time even to guess what that object might be, one of the Peelers very coolly depreived the horse of his nose-bag; another just as coolly returned the bit to his mouth; and a third, with equal coolness, go hold of the reins, when a fourth, who was certainly not quite so cool, did, by virtue of the application of a short round truncheon, persuade the passive animal to move on.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2008, Fionnuala Maccurtain, Remember It's for Ireland: A Family Memoir of Tomas Maccurtain",
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        "(Ireland, slang) Alternative form of peeler (policeman)."
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