‘One who steals by the method of cutting purses, a common practice when men wore their purses at their girdles’ (Johnson); hence, a pickpocket…
= purse-cutter, n.
A thief who cuts purses in order to take their contents; a cutpurse.
a cutpurse.
? a cutpurse.
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