Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cowstealer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cow-steal-er
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who steals cattle.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"They fixed his Skeleton to a Gibbet, upon that of an Oxe, because he had been a Cowstealer; they made Shoes of his Skin, and a Shirt of his Bowels."
""They find it more honourable and safe to be king's evidence, than a cowstealer, though that be their natural profession.""
"A Cowstealer's Trick.—“Some cowstealers will make a hole in a hott lofe newly drawn out of the oven, and putt it on an oxe's horn for a convenient time, and then they can turn their softned hornes the contrary way, so that the owner cannot [identify them]."
"[…] MCHWOIL, DONALD, a cowstealer, who was banished to the Plantations, at Inverness ..."

Etymology

From cow + stealer.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

cowstealers (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

abigeus

Questions

What does cowstealer mean?: One who steals cattle.
Where does cowstealer come from?: From cow + stealer.

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