/ · 1894 Brewer’s · N · Nab-man
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A sheriff’s officer. (See Nab.)
“Old Dornton has sent the nabman after him at last.”—Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering (dramatised by Terry, ii. 3).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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