Meaning of cowstealer | Babel Free

Definitions

One who steals cattle.

obsolete, possibly

Examples

“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.”

“"They find⟳ it more honourable and safe to be king's evidence, than a cowstealer, though that be their natural profession."”

“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].”

“[…] MCHWOIL, DONALD, a cowstealer, who was banished to the Plantations, at Inverness ...”

CEFR level