Definitions For Abactor

Noun

ABACTOR (plural ABACTORs) (legal, obsolete) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler. Attested from the mid 17th century until the early 19th century.{{R:SOED5, page=2}}

Synonyms

See thesaurus:rustler

Hyponyms

horse thief, sheepstealer, napper {{qualifier, obsolete}}

Translations

Dutch: runderdief, m, veedief, m Finnish: karjavaras Latin: abactor, m Polish: złodziej bydło, bydła, m-pr Portuguese: abactor, m, abígeo, m {{checktrans-top}} Bulgarian: {{t-check, bg, Крадец на добитък, sc=Cyrl}} {{attention, bg, 2=was "Крадец на добитък" - assumed sum-of-parts; if an idiom, remove the wikilinks to the individual words. see user:kephir/gadgets/xte#translation_fixing}}

Alternative forms

abacter

Etymology

From {{der, en, LL., abactor, , cattle rustler}}, from abigō, , drive away; from ab, , from, away from + agō, , drive.{{R:MW3 1976, page=3}}

Anagrams

CATOBAR, acrobat