Meaning of scampsman | Babel Free

Definitions

highwayman

dated, slang

Examples

“Now Oliver puts his blank nightcap on,¶ And every star its glim is hiding,¶ And forth to the heath is the scampsman gone,¶ His matchless cherry-black prancer riding;”

“Up comes some saucy kiddy, a scampsman on the hot, / But ere he pulls the trigger I am off just like a shot.”

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