What is "revenuer"

Usage examples of "revenuer".

Clearly, they had shut Jack Stump up as effectively as they had the revenuer whose skull screamed in the hollow tree.

There had been the brutal cranial fracture, where I had supposed the Soakeses had struck down the revenuer with a heavy object.

One of these days the revenuers are going to locate it and reduce it to a pile of scrap metal.

It ranks right up there with the Washington Monument in Maggodian folklore, from fairly recent events all the way back to the beginning of the century, when Robin's great-grandpappy shot a revenuer and disappeared onto the ridge with his common-law wife and twelve feral children.

Once he smooth-talked a revenuer into arresting Konnie’s father’s own innocent brother-in-law instead of him and swore an oath at the trial that cost the bewildered man two years of his life.

Once he smooth-talked a revenuer into arresting Konnie's father's own innocent brother-in-law instead of him and swore an oath at the trial that cost the bewildered man two years of his life.

Father tried to make a go of it at a couple businesses and then started running 'shine and when he got collared by revenuers he killed himself.

One time I caught a bootlegger who had just bought some roots against revenuers and was keeping them at his still and was seriously cast down when they failed to work.

My grandfather was the sheriff of Medicine Creek back then, and one night he and a couple of revenuers caught King Lavender down near the Kraus place, loading a jack mule with clearwater moonshine—old man Kraus had a still in the back of his tourist cave in those days.

Not to mention that he'd assume they were revenuers out to find his still.