Cowstealer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cowstealer is a noun meaning (possibly obsolete) One who steals cattle.
Meaning
(possibly obsolete) One who steals cattle.
Example Sentences
[…] MCHWOIL, DONALD, a cowstealer, who was banished to the Plantations, at Inverness .
"They find it more honourable and safe to be king's evidence, than a cowstealer, though that be their natural profession."
They fixed his Skeleton to a Gibbet, upon that of an Oxe, because he had been a Cowstealer; they made Shoes of his Skin, and a Shirt of his Bowels.
A Cowstealer's Trick.—“Some cowstealers will make a hole in a hott lofe newly drawn out of the oven, and putt it on an oxe's horn for a convenient time, and then they can turn their softned hornes the contrary way, so that the owner cannot [identify them].
Word Forms
- cowstealers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cowheard, killcow, cowkeeper, cowherd, stockkeeper, cowperson.
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