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单词 bridle cull
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bridle cull
bridle cull n. [ < bridle n. + cull n.2] cant Obsolete (historical in later use) a highwayman.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > [noun] > highwayman > mounted
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1718 C. Hitchin Regulator 19 A Bridle-Cull, alias a Highway Man.
1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild i. v, in Misc. III. 34 A Booty of £10 looks as great in the Eye of a Bridle-cull..as that of as many thousands to the Statesman.
1897 C. Whibley Bk. of Scoundrels 77 He lived on terms of intimacy with the mill-kens, the bridle-culls, the buttock-and-files of London.
1929 J. S. Montgomery in Salt Lake Tribune 21 July 3/3 Resurrection Coves, Bridle Culls, Family-men, and such ilk, all candidates for a ‘Tyburn tippet’.
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