peelers

That eejit called the peelers even after I told him.

The Bloomsday Dead Adrian McKinty 2007

Then he let call the peelers -- they had peelers waiting to mind him -- and down they come to the big steppingstones they have above for crossing the first river coming out of the lakes; my man going in front to cross over, and the water was high up covering the Stones.

In Wicklow and West Kerry 1890

To put a private quarrel or injury into the hands of the peelers were a disloyal making of terms with the public foe; a condoning of great permanent wrongs for the sake of a trivial temporary convenience.

Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

To put a private quarrel or injury into the hands of the peelers were a disloyal making of terms with the public foe; a condoning of great permanent wrongs for the sake of a trivial temporary convenience.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

Dick, under these circumstances, had no alternative but to knock his assailant down; but the screaming that was made in the house caused the appearance of those metropolitan enemies of freedom, the "peelers," who marched him off in custody.

Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro

That's why they are also called 'peelers' sometimes.

The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1916

Then he showed himself in the crowd of "peelers" and their friends, as unconcernedly as he might; and as unobtrusively.

The Happy Family B. M. Bower 1905

I have heard Sir Robert Peel spoken of in words of vituperation for having introduced "peelers," now known as "bobbies," to interfere, as they said, with poor people's rights.

The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Walter Runciman 1892

They are about a yard high with caps like the 'peelers' pulled down over their faces.

The Aran Islands 1890

You better wait in the Beemer, we have some haggling to do if you don’t want me to call the peelers, the big man said, getting his breath back and turning away from me.

The Bloomsday Dead Adrian McKinty 2007