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单词 highwayman
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highwaymann.

Brit. /ˈhʌɪweɪmən/, U.S. /ˈhaɪˌweɪmən/
Inflections: Plural highwaymen.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: highway n., man n.1
Etymology: < highway n. + man n.1 Compare earlier highway robber n., highway thief n., and highway stander n. at highway n. Compounds 2.A pronunciation with stress on the middle element is also occasionally recorded.
1.
a. A man who holds up travellers on a highway at gunpoint in order to rob them; esp. one who does this on horseback, as distinguished from a footpad. Now chiefly historical.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > [noun] > highwayman
routerc1300
malandryna1438
stradarolle1562
highpad1567
highway robber1577
way-beatera1586
lance-man1589
high lawyer1591
St. Nicholas' clerk1598
outrider1599
bidstand1600
land-pirate1608
highwayman1617
pad1652
knight of the road1665
rum-padder1665
paddist1671
rum pad1688
pad-thief1690
gentleman (also squire) of the pad1700
snaffler1728
gentleman1778
scamp1782
scampsman1799
bandolero1832
ladrone1832
Spring-heeled Jack1838
road agent1840
agent1876
1617 W. Fennor Compters Common-wealth iv. 27 It is this that makes Newmarket heath, and Royston-dounes about Christmas time so full of high-way men that poore Countrie people cannot passe quietly to their Cottages.
1620 J. Melton Astrologaster 38 You will iudge how vnfortunately a man will die, either on the water, like a Pyrate, or..on a tree like a High-way man.
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. i. 39 'Tis like the Friendship of Pickpockets and Highwaymen, that are said to observe strict Justice among themselves.
1715 New Journey France 68 The Spectacle was very hideous, being above Twenty Highwaymen, that were hung to the Branches of the Trees.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 141 The charms of riot and debauchery make highwaymen and housebreakers.
1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 237 They raised the hue and cry:—‘Stop thief! stop thief!—a highwayman!’
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge ii. 243 Roads in the neighbourhood of the metropolis were infested by footpads or highwaymen.
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn ii. 14 We are highwaymen. We stop stages and carriages on the road, with masks on, and kill people and take their watches and money.
1930 Oxf. Ann. Girls 114/1 The Squire picked up the highwayman's discharged pistol and put it into Miss Hester's uninjured hand.
1984 R. D. McGrath Gunfighters, Highwaymen, & Vigilantes iv. 72 The mules kicked and bolted; one highwayman was kicked into the chaparral.
2007 B. le Vay Eccentric London xxii. 263 Hampstead..was once an isolated hamlet and haunt of highwaymen such as Dick Turpin.
b. figurative and in extended use. Cf. highway robbery n.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun]
thief688
bribera1387
stealer1508
taker?a1513
goodfellow1566
snatcher1575
lift1591
liftera1592
larcin1596
Tartar1602
lime-twig1606
outparter1607
Tartarian1608
flick1610
puggard1611
gilt1620
nim1630
highwayman1652
cloyer1659
out-trader1660
Robin Goodfellow1680
birdlime1705
gyp1728
filch1775
kiddy1780
snaveller1781
larcenist1803
pincher1814
geach1821
wharf-rat1823
toucher1837
larcener1839
snammer1839
drummer1856
gun1857
forker1867
gunsmith1869
nabber1880
thiever1899
tea-leaf1903
gun moll1908
nicker1909
knocker-off1926
possum1945
scuffler1961
rip-off1969
1652 G. Winstanley Law of Freedom in Platform ii. 26 This Government may well be called the Government of high-way men, who hath stoln the Earth from the younger brethren by force, and holds it from them by force.
1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) ii. 25 We take..Guns and Lances, to resist the Highway-men the Bears.
1700 B. Furly Let. 20 Aug. in Corr. J. Locke (1976) 118 I mean the art of wrangling about words that most what signify nothing; about which the great HighWaymen of the Church, do ram and damn one another.
1816 ‘P. Pindar’ Wks. I. 391 That highwayman call'd Time (Noted for robbing ladies of their prime).
a1842 W. Maginn Misc. Writings (1855) I. 51 Where's the philosopher would not feel loss of her? Whose bosom these bright sunny eyes would not thaw? Although I'm a game one, these little highwaymen Have rifled the heart of poor Major M'Craw.
1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 8 That aerial highwayman the forced landing.
1992 Smithsonian June 75/2 This galaxy is a highwayman, guilty of waylaying comet hunters in their nightly pursuits.
2. A surveyor of highways; a road engineer. rare (U.S. in later use). N.E.D. (1898) notes: ‘In use in north Lincolnshire and elsewhere.’
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveyor > of roads
bematist1875
highwayman1888
1888 E. A. Freeman Let. 25 Apr. in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. E. A. Freeman (1895) II. 379 Ex. officio guardians and highwaymen I count for a mistake.
1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Nov. 858/1 Highwayman..is only an American term for what we would call a road-engineer.

Compounds

attributive and in the genitive. Designating (the style or shape of) any of various types of long, loose coat or cape resembling or suggestive of the kind traditionally worn by highwaymen in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [adjective] > coat > other
full-dressed1752
broad-skirted1809
swallow-tailed1824
shad-bellied1832
square-tailed1837
cut-off1840
cutaway1841
sack1847
raglan1858
swing-back1862
Prince Albert1873
box back1892
highwayman1892
sack-back1892
sport utility1925
teddy bear1925
Redfern1932
sports utility1940
Crombie1951
1892 Funny Folks 12 Nov. 362/3 One of those new highwayman cloaks.
1901 Daily Chron. 9 July 3/5 A long paletot of white silk, made in the ‘highwayman’ shape, with a number of natty little capes.
1911 V. Bell Let. in Sel. Lett. (1993) 108 I've heard from your mother who has been trying to buy him a highwayman's coat, but luckily such things aren't made now.
1960 Guardian 29 July 7/1 A very dashing full length highwayman coat..with a huge cape collar.
1966 Vogue Nov. 88 (caption) Vogue's adventurers wear..highwaymen's coats.
2012 Harper's Bazaar (Nexis) Sept. 165 Givenchy's cavalier jackets, Salvatore Ferragamo's poet blouses and Gucci's highwayman capes all echo his style.

Derivatives

highwaymanhood n. Obsolete the fact or condition of being a highwayman.Apparently an isolated use.
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1861 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem III. clxxviii. 215 Highwaymanhood and foot-padry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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