serjeant-at-arms
noun
- 1
A person charged with keeping order at a meeting.
noun
- 1
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.
- 2
A similar officer who attends on each House of Parliament, and arrests any person ordered by the House to be arrested.
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