thief : Idioms & Phrases

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cattle thief

  • noun someone who steals livestock (especially cattle)
    rustler.
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Liquor thief

  • a tube for taking samples of liquor from a cask through the bung hole.
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Panel thief

  • one who robs in a panel house.
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sea thief

Sea" thief`
Definitions
  1. A pirate. Drayton.
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sneak thief

  • noun a thief who steals without using violence
    snitcher; pilferer.
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Thief catcher

  • . Same as Thief taker.
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Thief leader

  • one who leads or takes away a thief. L'Estrange.
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Thief taker

  • one whose business is to find and capture thieves and bring them to justice.
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Thief tube

  • a tube for withdrawing a sample of a liquid from a cask.
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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.
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water thief

Wa"ter thief`
Definitions
  1. A pirate. R. Shak.
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Wheat thief

  • (Bot.), gromwell; so called because it is a troublesome weed in wheat fields. See Gromwell.
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