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ˈsheep-stealer
One who steals sheep.
1634Sanderson Serm. (1674) II. 286 How unequal a thing is it,..that a sacrilegious church-robber should make a mittimus for a poor sheep-stealer? 1778Johnson Let. 13 Oct., in Boswell, Pray how many sheep-stealers did you convict? 1829Hogg Sheph. Cal. II. x. 325 A notorious sheep-stealer in the county of Mid-Lothian.
So ˈsheep-stealing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 133 For no scheip steilling nor wrangous geir. 1648W. Jenkyn Blind Guide i. 6 Their trade of Sheep-stealing will..decay. a1704T. Brown Laconics Wks. 1711 IV. 7 One Sheepstealing Rogue will spoil all the rest. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 70 We shall be taken up for sheep-stealing presently ourselves. |