Vacabond
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Vacabond is a noun meaning (obsolete) Alternative form of vagabond.
Meaning
(obsolete) Alternative form of vagabond.
Example Sentences
Such "masterless men," decoyed into the tippling-houses, soon learnt to love idleness rather than honest labour, and helped to swell the crowd of rogues and "vacabonds" which infested the suburbs of London, to the terror of honest folk.
That everie Souldier or Mariner that shalbe taken beginge in any place within this Realme after the Feaste of Easter nexte, or any that shall counterfeite any Certificate in this Acte expressed, shall for ever lose his Annuitie or Pension, and shalbe taken deemed and adjudged as a common Rogue or Vacabond person, and shall have and sustayne the same, and the like Paynes Imprisonment and Punyshment as is appointed and provided for common rogues and vacabond persons.
Word Forms
- vacabonds
Related Words
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