单词	highwayman
释义	highwaymanhigh‧way‧man /ˈhaɪweɪmən/ noun (plural highwaymen /-mən/) [countable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS He could tell the highwayman was stone dead. However, highwaymen and armed guerrilla bands were becoming more numerous, especially along the roads from the seacoast to the capital. I think your highwayman is a cunning and resourceful villain. Local lore has it that the hands belong to a convicted highwayman who would hold up carriage-travellers in the early nineteenth century. Many of the highwaymen became legends. The highwayman had assumed it was a lance, but now a curved blade sprang out and glittered blue along its edges. The highwayman, having cheated the law for years, hanged for £ 4 of horseflesh. The countryside was his enemy: uncouth heather and highwayman copses kept taking his jewel and hiding it. word sets WORD SETS► History age, nounallied, adjectivebarbarian, nounbaroque, adjectivebarrow, nounbattlements, nounbestiary, nounbiography, nounBlack Death, the, bloodletting, nounchivalry, nouncircus, nounclassical, adjectivecolony, nounconquistador, noundolmen, noundominion, noundoublet, noundragoon, nounducking stool, noundunce's cap, nounEdwardian, adjectiveElizabethan, adjectiveepoch, nounera, nounfeudalism, nounforum, noungalleon, noungalley, noungenealogy, noungladiator, nounGraeco-, prefixGrecian, adjectiveGreco-, prefixHellene, nounHellenic, adjectiveherald, nounhighwayman, nounhistorian, nounhistoric, adjectivehistorical, adjectiveIce Age, nounindustrial archaeology, nounIndustrial Revolution, the, nouninterwar, adjectiveIron Curtain, the, Jacobite, nounlocal history, nounlord, nounmedieval, adjectiveMoorish, adjectiveNorman, adjectiveNorse, adjectivepage, nounpageant, nounpaladin, nounpalimpsest, nounpapyrus, nounparchment, nounpatrician, adjectivepennon, nounperiod piece, nounprehistoric, adjectiveprehistory, nounquarterstaff, nounredcoat, nounreeve, nounRegency, adjectiveRomano-, prefixromanticism, nountime capsule, nounTudor, adjectiveVictorian, adjectiveVictorian, nounWhig, nounzeitgeist, noun someone who stopped people and carriages on the roads and robbed them, especially in the 17th and 18th centuries
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