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An Irish outlaw or robber haunting woods or wild country; such outlaws collectively.
In 17th-cent. Ireland: a person living as an outlaw after being dispossessed by English settlers, and surviving by acts of robbery and plunder…
An Irish pikeman or irregular soldier, esp. one fighting on the Jacobite side during the Williamite War of 1689–91. Hence: an Irish bandit…