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house-breaker en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of housebreaker.
    • My brother Tom, you know, is on the force, and he has been here telling us all about it; how you’ve been philanderin about with Peg Alick, the well-known house-breaker and thief. 1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill.; […]: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 93:

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