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Cattle thief   /kˈætəl θif/   Listen
Cattle thief

noun
1.
Someone who steals livestock (especially cattle).  Synonym: rustler.






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"Cattle thief" Quotes from Famous Books



... system of argument could he persuade himself to marry into a family like that of the Rodneys—the girl herself, for all her beauty and rare womanliness, a quarter Indian, her father the synonyme for obloquy, her brother a cattle thief. Hamilton preferred that other men should make the heroic marriages of a new country. He was prepared to applaud their hardihood of temperament, but in his own case such a thing was inconceivable. Similar ...
— Judith Of The Plains • Marie Manning

... yer 'bout old Mendez being a Mexican revolutionary leader down in Mex, wa'n't he? Hell of a leader he is! I reckon he's been mixed up in scrapes enough down thar, but they had mighty little to do with revolutin'. He's just plain bad man, miss—cattle thief, an' all round outlaw. There's a price on his head in three States, but nobody dares go after it, because of the ...
— The Strange Case of Cavendish • Randall Parrish



Words linked to "Cattle thief" :   stealer, thief



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