Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a number of men who troop or range over the mosses or bogs (compare
bog-trotter ): applied specifically to the marauders who infested the borders of England and Scotland in former times.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the
mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
moss-trooper .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a marauder and plunderer (originally operating in the bogs between England and Scotland)
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Examples
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'Parcy, the ghost o' the murdered mosstrooper, d 'ye mean, that the old wives talked of?
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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"If I had known you were such a mosstrooper you should have tasted longer of the Bass," says he.
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"I suspect there is some very weary cattle by the road," said I. "If I had known you were such a mosstrooper you should have tasted longer of the Bass," says he.
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"If I had known you were such a mosstrooper you should have tasted longer of the Bass," says he.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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A fancied mosstrooper, the boy The truncheon ofasriear bestrode,
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“It would not have been altogether so rough a one,” said the mosstrooper; “for my master was in heavy thought what to do in these unsettled times, and would scarce have hazarded misusing a man sent to him by so terrible a leader as the Lord James.
The Monastery 2008
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"It would not have been altogether so rough a one," said the mosstrooper; "for my master was in heavy thought what to do in these unsettled times, and would scarce have hazarded misusing a man sent to him by so terrible a leader as the Lord James.
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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