hedge creeper
noun1
Obsolete A thief who hides amongst hedges and robs travellers on the road.
- Leander could no longer keep her, / Away she goes with this hedge-creeper.1653, The Loves of Hero and Leander: A Mock Poem, London, page 12:
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