a peace officer subordinate to a sheriff.
Sillett played his trumps boldly, not knowing that he was speaking to a deputy-sheriff.
The deputy-sheriff kept saying it over and over to himself as he hurried to the hospital.
As most of them had never seen the play, they were not surprised when Holden did not again join the attack on the deputy-sheriff.
Because Cotton's a deputy-sheriff; he had a right to arrest you.
"And fights like a devil," replied Dan Treu, the deputy-sheriff.