Wiktionary
curber
n. 1 Someone or something which curbs. 2 (context historical slang English) A type of thief who used a ‘curb’ or hooked pole to steal things through open windows.
Usage examples of "curber".
Then this fine curber of phantasies got back to his house in the morning by the time Taschereau came to invite him to spend the day at La Grenadiere, and the cuckold always found the priest asleep in his bed.
The only Englishmen likely to be out and about, though, were curbers and flicks and nips and high lawyers: thieves and robbers who might have a professional interest, as it were, in making his acquaintance.