thief : Idioms & Phrases
Index
cattle thief
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noun someone who steals livestock (especially cattle)
rustler.
WordNet
Liquor thief
- a tube for taking samples of liquor from a cask through the bung hole.
Webster 1913
Panel thief
- one who robs in a panel house.
Webster 1913
sea thief
Sea" thief`
Definitions
A pirate. Drayton.
Webster 1913
sneak thief
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noun a thief who steals without using violence
snitcher; pilferer.
WordNet
Thief catcher
- . Same as
Thief taker .
Webster 1913
Thief leader
- one who leads or takes away a thief. L'Estrange.
Webster 1913
Thief taker
- one whose business is to find and capture thieves and bring them to justice.
Webster 1913
Thief tube
- a tube for withdrawing a sample of a liquid from a cask.
Webster 1913
Thieves' vinegar
- a kind of aromatic vinegar for the sick room, taking its name from the story that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London. Eng.
Webster 1913
water thief
Wa"ter thief`
Definitions
A pirate. R. Shak.
Webster 1913
Wheat thief
(Bot.) , gromwell; so called because it is a troublesome weed in wheat fields. SeeGromwell .