† boot-halern.
Obsolete.
A marauder, a marauding or foraging soldier; a freebooter; a highwayman, brigand.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > sacker, raider, or looter > [noun]
reavereOE
forayerc1330
cateran1371
ransackerc1390
depopulatorc1440
rover1481
forager1489
river?a1500
riderc1550
wight-rider1569
predour1577
sacker1589
harrier1596
boot-haler1600
marauder1698
poligar1773
skinner1780
looter1860
raider1861
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxii. xli. 458 g To stop and impeach the forragers and boothalers [L. praedatoribus] of Anniball.
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 182 A common Boote-hayler.
1634 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (new ed.) vii. 139 The very Boot-halers, or Highway-robbers, are more woorthy favour than such.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Coronation Solyman 145 in Trav. Persia Those Boot-halers the Cosaques.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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