| 单词 | boot-haler | 
| 释义 | † boot-halern. Obsolete.   A marauder, a marauding or foraging soldier; a freebooter; a highwayman, brigand. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > sacker, raider, or looter > 			[noun]		 reavereOE forayerc1330 cateran1371 ransackerc1390 depopulatorc1440 rover1481 forager1489 river?a1500 riderc1550 wight-rider1569 predour1577 sacker1589 harrier1596 boot-haler1600 marauder1698 poligar1773 skinner1780 looter1860 raider1861 1600    P. Holland tr.  Livy Rom. Hist.  xxii. xli. 458 g  				To stop and impeach the forragers and boothalers [L. praedatoribus] of Anniball. 1621    R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 182  				A common Boote-hayler. 1634    C. Butler Feminine Monarchie 		(new ed.)	 vii. 139  				The very Boot-halers, or Highway-robbers, are more woorthy favour than such. 1686    tr.  J. Chardin Coronation Solyman 145 in  Trav. Persia  				Those Boot-halers the Cosaques. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021). <  | 
	
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