In India (later also Pakistan and Nepal) and Burma (Myanmar): a member of a group or class of bandits who operate in gangs and engage in armed…

a member of a gang of robbers; spec. = dacoit, n.

An escaped convict who took refuge in the Australian ‘bush’; a criminal living in the bush, and subsisting by robbery with violence.

One of the body of Greeks who refused to submit to the Turks after the conquest of Greece in the fifteenth century, and maintained their independence…

Historical (transl. French écorcheur). One of a number of French brigands in the 14th century, who ‘flayed’ or pillaged the people.

A rover, a wanderer; †a rake (obsolete). Also: (Australian) = bush-ranger, n.

A dacoit (dacoit, n.). Obsolete. rare and nonstandard.

Originally and chiefly Australian. A person who stops and robs a person or vehicle at gunpoint; an armed robber. Cf. stick-up, n. 3b. Now rare.

A chief or leader of dacoits.

Chiefly Australian slang (usually depreciative). A convict, esp. an escaped convict; a bushranger. Now historical and rare.

A bandit, outlaw, or guerrilla. Also as a modifier, esp. in Shifta War (1963–7), a war fought by ethnic Somali in Kenya's Northern Frontier…