Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In law, one who feloniously drives away or steals a herd or numbers of cattle at once, in distinction from one who steals a single beast or a few.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Law), obsolete One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves.
Etymologies
- From Late Latin abactor ("cattle rustler"), from abigō ("drive away"); from ab ("from, away from") + agō ("drive"). (Wiktionary)
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madmouth unlikeliest definition ever 0.0 Apr 17, 2009
sionnach cattle thief
Oct 20, 2007