thief-taker

noun

thief-taker

noun

1

Historical Someone whose job it is to find and capture thieves.

In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 63:

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