Cachepol (n.) - a tax-gatherer, constable, bailiff. The word probably meant at first the officer who collected from the tenant the fowls (pullos) paid as rent.
Two theves also tholed deeth that tyme
Upon a croos bisides Crist - so was the comune lawe.
A cachepol cam forth and craked bothe hir legges,
And hir armes after of either of tho theves.- Langland, William: The vision of Piers Plowman (1377-1379)
Pronunciation: /kAtSpOl/
Key
/k/ k in kin
/A/ a in father
/tS/ ch in chin
/p/ p in pepper
/O/ o in cloth
/l/ l in lily
The Middle-English Word of the Day is selected from Mayhew and Skeat's
"Concise Dictionary of Middle English."
As found on Greg Lindahl's website
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/concise/concise.html
The example text was found at the Middle English Collection of the University of Virginia Library.
http://etext.virginia.edu/collections/languages/english/mideng.browse.html
The approximate pronunciation is determined using Carol Hamill's Middle English Pronunciation Guide
and noted using upon the ASCII-IPA Standard
http://www.island.net/~hamill/medieval/mepronunc.html
http://www.kirshenbaum.net/IPA/
