单词 | rum-padder |
释义 | rum-paddern. A highwayman; esp. a well-equipped one. Now archaic. 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 1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. iv. 34 Rom-padders, High-way-men. 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. at Whit As five Rum padders are rub'd in the darkmans out of the Whit, and are pik'd into the Deuseavile. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Rum-padders, the better sort of Highway-men well Mounted and Armed. 1813 D. W. Paynter Godfrey Ranger III. iii. 37 This fellerd has something in his face that doesn't please me over well. He looks plaguily like a rum-padder. 1870 All Year Round 5 Mar. 322/1 The highwaymen they would find inside, befouled, and fettered, and considerably chopfallen, were rum-padders (the road itself on which they performed their exploits being the pad). 1991 P. C. Wrede Mairelon Magician xx. 204 ‘We got the rum padder, Mr. Laverham,’ Jack panted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1665 |
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