| 单词 | house-robbing |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse-robbing house-robbing n. ΚΠ 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. L2v Our common Lawyers restraine it [sc. burglary] to robbing a house by night... The like offence committed by day, they call house-robbing. 1735 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 735/1 Mackney, to an unhappy End for stealing Horses was condemn'd..Cole and Alder..for House Robbing, receiv'd their due. 1845 T. Hall Effects & Adventures Raby Rattler xxvi. 266 Here is a house robbing, and the devil a one is there to help them. 1918 J. L. Sutton in J. E. McCulloch Democracy in Earnest 353 They are there [sc. in jail]..for such acts as pilfering, house-robbing, and other petty or noncapital offenses. 2003 H. Camisa & J. Franklin Inside Out xviii. 250 The star witness for the state was Percy House, the ‘foreman’ of the house-robbing crew. < as lemmas |
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