abactor
nounUS /ˈæˌbæk.tɚ/
Etymology From Late Latin abactor (“cattle rustler”), from abigō (“drive away”); from ab (“from, away from”) + agō (“drive”).
- […] not only from straying, but, as in time of warr, from invaders and abactors […]1659, H. Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon the Books of the Psalms:
- But yesterday, / it was her husband / Who’d lost his life in the fight / As he beat the abactors back, / Who tried to seize their cattle.1992, Okkūr Mācāttiyar, translated by K.G. Seshadri, “Purananuru 279”, in Indian Literature, volume 35, number 149, page 27:
- Hyponyms
- horse thief, sheepstealer, napper