abactor

noun
/ˈæˌbæk.tɚ/US

Etymology

From Late Latin abactor (“cattle rustler”), from abigō (“drive away”); from ab (“from, away from”) + agō (“drive”).

  1. derived from abactor

Definitions

  1. One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves

    One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler.

    • […] not only from straying, but, as in time of warr, from invaders and abactors […]
    • But yesterday, / it was her husband / Who’d lost his life in the fight / As he beat the abactors back, / Who tried to seize their cattle.

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