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Someone who steals livestock (especially cattle)
Answer for the clue "Someone who steals livestock (especially cattle) ", 7 letters:
rustler
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Word definitions for rustler in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1820, "one who rustles," agent noun from rustle (v.). American English meaning "cattle thief" is from 1882.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A fish rustler was recently before magistrates in Blackpool and put on probation. ▪ Members of the Vigilance Committee rode all over the state and into North Dakota looking for men they thought were rustlers. ▪ More and more ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who rustles; a cattle thief. 2 A bovine animal that can care for itself in any circumstances. 3 (context US slang Western US dated English) An alert, energetic, driving person.
Usage examples of rustler.
Root Canal and the Gingivitis Gang, a bunch of tooth decaying rustlers.
Ben, sensing something most unusual, rode quickly by the rustlers to face Modoc, who had turned.
A ranger might not have to fight Indians or Mexican guerrillas, but since Texas had plenty of ranchland left, a ranger had to be a skilled horseman in case he was called upon to track down modern-day rustlers.
He was big and mean, and more than capable of handling threats to the ranch, whether they came in the form of rustlers or overly familiar foremen.
And the ones American rose rustlers found near abandoned houses and in old graveyards.
Instead of cattle rustlers in black hats we have an invasion of earth by horrid alien creatures.
To it flocked the gunslingers, gamblers, the badmen one jump ahead of the law, the soldiers and rustlers and the girls.
When rustlers had been decimating his herd of cattle and the local law enforcement hadn't been able to stop it, Webb had single-handedly tracked the four rustlers and followed them into Mexico.
He trailed the rustler into old Mexico, and was about ready to confront him when word reached Baca that the reward had been cancelled.
At length the rustlers rose and, with rifles in hand, they moved as one man down the slope.
And if he intended to follow the cattle trail and try to find the rustlers he had better make a move at once.
And take anything they wanted Rustlers generally emerged from that group.
He stood up and looked back, estimating the final course that the Rustler had been following and trying to reconstruct the turns he had made bringing it down.
Sampson DeVeer listened politely to Ken's theory about rustlers somehow evading the security satellites, but clearly he was finding it hard to believe.
Duane decided that Sanderson, Bradford, and Ord were but notorious outposts to this Fairdale, which was a secret center of rustlers and outlaws.