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highwayman
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who travels the highways with intent to rob people" (often on horseback and thus contrasted to a footpad ), 1640s, from highway + man .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A highwayman was a robber who stole from travelers. This type of thief usually travelled and robbed by horse , as compared to a footpad who travelled and robbed on foot; mounted highwaymen were widely considered to be socially superior to footpads. Such ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He could tell the highwayman was stone dead. ▪ However, highwaymen and armed guerrilla bands were becoming more numerous, especially along the roads from the seacoast to the capital. ▪ I think your highwayman is a cunning and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context historical English) A person usually mounted on horseback who rob travelers on public roads.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it [syn: highjacker , hijacker , road agent ]
Usage examples of highwayman.
They are highwaymen and boors, who glean pleasure from the fear and loss they bring to others.
Through highwaymen in the Wood of Brosna and into Meath Cormac escorted them, and to Tara Hill and the palace of the High-king.
When Cyn made no reply, the highwayman hitched his horse to the back and swung up beside him.
Highwaymen and murderers, forgers and sneaksmen, the Sydney Ducks had someone of experience in every aspect of the roughest criminal trade.
If a word from the Cecils--a word delivered through Nick Skeres, and perhaps through Ingram Frizer as well--could ward him against cheats and thieves and pickpockets and highwaymen, what could a different word do?
A struggle then ensued, in which the former wrested the pistol from the hand of his antagonist, and both came from their horses on the ground together, the highwayman upon his back, and the victorious Jones upon him.
Seeing him, I think of Procrustes, the mythological highwayman who tortured his victims by stretching them on a bed if they were too short, or cutting them down to size if they were too tall.
No type was more popular round French dinner tables, because France was so large and so infested with Vagabonds and highwaymen.
For if half of what is said of England is true, the place is full of runagates, Vagabonds, highwaymen, and varlets of all stripes.
We laughed at this, and he said that if I was going to make any stay in Cologne I should probably have the pleasure of seeing the highwaymen hanged.
They will treat of the habits and manners of highwaymen, and quote obscure broadsheets and songs of the people to colour their story, yet decline to bestow more than a passing remark upon our domestic kings: because they are not hereditary, we may suppose.
Le Duc rode back and told me that the postillions had taken flight, possibly to give notice of our mishap to highwaymen, who are very common in the States of the Church and Naples.
Our American tourists, who were accustomed to the clamor of the hackmen here, and expected to be assaulted by a horde of wild Comanches in plain clothes, and torn limb from baggage, if not limb from limb, were unable to account for this silence, and the absence of the common highwaymen, until they remembered that the State had bought the Falls, and the agents of the government had suppressed many of the old nuisances.
If I had been like the English, who carry a light purse for the benefit of the highwaymen, I would have thrown it to these poor wretches.
I got home at eleven o'clock without meeting any highwaymen as I had expected, indeed I had put up six guineas in a small purse for their special use and benefit.