| 单词 | road agent |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroad agent road agent n. U.S. †(a) an agent or driver for a stagecoach company (obsolete); (b) a robber who steals from travellers or holds up vehicles on the road (now historical). ΘΚΠ 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 1840 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) (Electronic text) 12 Aug. The mail stage drove into town without even stopping to relieve the wounded [from a damaged coach], the road agent coolly remarking that ‘the other line might bring in their own dead!’ 1863 J. L. Fisk Jrnl. 13 Sept. in Exped. Rocky Mtns. (1864) 23 He then asked us to help him look for his purse, which he had thrown away in the grass, taking us for ‘road agents’, i.e. highwaymen. 1881 Macmillan's Mag. 45 124 The great distances between the settlements enable the ‘road-agents’ to have a fine time of it. 1944 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 9 190/1 He and his ‘road agents’ are known to have killed one hundred and two men in their plunderous activities. 1999 New Yorker 8 Feb. 5/2 The career of a Colorado ‘road agent’ named Billy Le Roy..was publicized by the tabloid National Police Gazette. < as lemmas |
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