"harman-beck" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "harman-becks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "harman-beck (plural harman-becks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English Thieves' Cant",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1610, “The Maunderer's Wooing”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 8",
          "text": "But O ben Coue what if we be clyd, / Long we cannot foist & nip at last we shall be spyed, / If that we be spied, O then begins our woe, / With the Harman beake out and alas, / To Wittington we goe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1652, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, act 2",
          "text": "Here, safe in our Skipper, let's cly off our Peck, / And bowse in defiance o' th' Harman-beck.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A policeman."
      ],
      "id": "en-harman-beck-en-noun-o2bEmiK8",
      "links": [
        [
          "policeman",
          "policeman"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "thieves' cant",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, thieves' cant) A policeman."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "harman"
        },
        {
          "word": "harmans"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "harman"
        },
        {
          "word": "nuthook"
        },
        {
          "word": "PC Plod"
        },
        {
          "word": "police officer"
        },
        {
          "word": "beck-harman"
        },
        {
          "word": "harmanbeck"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "harman-beck"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "harman-becks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "harman-beck (plural harman-becks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "harman"
    },
    {
      "word": "harmans"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English Thieves' Cant",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1610, “The Maunderer's Wooing”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 8",
          "text": "But O ben Coue what if we be clyd, / Long we cannot foist & nip at last we shall be spyed, / If that we be spied, O then begins our woe, / With the Harman beake out and alas, / To Wittington we goe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1652, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, act 2",
          "text": "Here, safe in our Skipper, let's cly off our Peck, / And bowse in defiance o' th' Harman-beck.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A policeman."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "policeman",
          "policeman"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "thieves' cant",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, thieves' cant) A policeman."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "harman"
    },
    {
      "word": "nuthook"
    },
    {
      "word": "PC Plod"
    },
    {
      "word": "police officer"
    },
    {
      "word": "beck-harman"
    },
    {
      "word": "harmanbeck"
    }
  ],
  "word": "harman-beck"
}