serjeant-at-arms
English edit
Noun edit
serjeant-at-arms (plural serjeants-at-arms)
- Archaic spelling of sergeant-at-arms (“person who keeps order at a meeting”). (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (UK, historical) An officer who attends upon the Lord Chancellor with the mace, and who executes various writs of process in the course of a Chancery suit.
- (UK, historical) A similar officer who attends on each House of Parliament, and arrests any person ordered by the House to be arrested.