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housebreaker

noun

Etymology

From house + breaker.

  1. inherited from breker
  2. formed as housebreaker — “house + breaker”

Definitions

  1. A criminal who breaks into and enters another's house or premises with the intent of…

    A criminal who breaks into and enters another's house or premises with the intent of committing a crime.

    • […] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]
    • [H]e is dressed in such a rapscallion manner that the people would think you were talking to a house-breaker.
    • The vicar seized a sword and routed the housebreaker, but it was the vicar's wife in a nightgown and coat who caught up with the fleeing intruder, slapped his face and held him by the neck.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA