Dictionary

abactor en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈæˌbæk.tɚ/ (General-American)
• /æˈbæk.tɚ/ (General-American)
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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (archaic) 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 […] 1659, H. Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon the Books of the Psalms:
   • 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. 1992, Okkūr Mācāttiyar, translated by K.G. Seshadri, “Purananuru 279”, in Indian Literature, volume 35, number 149, page 27:

Forms

Hyponyms

horse thief · napper · sheepstealer

Synonyms

rustler · abactor · duffer

Translations (8)

nl veedief (one who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds) · pt abactor (one who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds) · fi karjavaras (one who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds) · pl złodziej bydła (one who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds) · bg краде́ц на доби́тък (one who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds) · la abactor (one who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds) · nl runderdief (one who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds) · pt abígeo (one who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds)