Find the word definition

Crossword clues for stabber

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stabber

Stabber \Stab"ber\ (st[a^]b"b[~e]r), n.

  1. One who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer.

  2. (Naut.) A small marline spike; a pricker.

Wiktionary
stabber

n. 1 One who, or that which, stabs. 2 (context nautical English) A small marlinespike.

WordNet
stabber

n. someone who stabs another person

Usage examples of "stabber".

On the way to the Borderlands, more than two years earlier, a guard called Stabber had told him that there were caverns to the east of the three caravan routes.

So long as knight and baron were a strength and a guard to the kingdom they might be endured, but now, when all men knew that the great battles in France had been won by English yeomen and Welsh stabbers, warlike fame, the only fame to which his class had ever aspired, appeared to have deserted the plate-clad horsemen.

So long as knight and baron were a strength and a guard to the kingdom they might be endured, but now, when all men knew that the great battles in France had been won by English yeomen and Welsh stabbers, warlike fame, the only fame to which his class had ever aspired, appeared to have deserted the plate-clad horsemen.