| 释义 |
† boot-haler Obs.
Also 7 -hayler.
[f. prec. + -er1.]
A marauder, a marauding or foraging soldier; a freebooter; a highwayman, brigand.
1600Holland Livy xxii. xli. 458 g, To stop and impeach the forragers and boothalers [prædatoribus] of Anniball. 1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. (1634) 139 The very Boot-halers, or Highway-robbers, are more worthy favour than such. 1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 182 A common Boote-hayler. 1686tr. Chardin's Trav., Coron. Solyman 145 Those Boot-halers the Cosaques. |