- Arrest and take into custody - Catch - Nab - Nab (felon) - Take into custody - To take or seize; to take hold of. - Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process;
to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
- A staff or cudgel. - See Baton. - An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in
attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed
by the court.