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/ˈæˌbæk.tɚ/ · noun
(law, archaic) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler..
[…] not only from straying, but, as in time of warr, from invaders and abactors […]
But yesterday, / it was her husband / Who’d lost his life in the fight / As he beat the abactors back, / Who tried to seize their cattle.
Use abactor when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Abactor means (law, archaic) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler..
Common synonyms include abactor, duffer, rustler.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] not only from straying, but, as in time of warr, from invaders and abactors […]
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