abactor (en)

Anglice

Notatio

← Latine abactor

Nomen substantivum

abactor (plur.  abactors )

1. leg. † | abactor (-oris, masc.) ||

Dictiones collatae

Synonyma — Thesaurus Anglicus: Fur

• cattle rustler

Loci

• 1829, Carolus Lamb, Letter 474 [1]

  I thought, if she went no more, the Abactor or Abactor’s wife (vide Ainsworth) would suppose she had heard something; and I have delicacy for the sheep-stealer.