thiever
nounEtymology From thieve + -er.
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Uncommon One who thieves.
- May this juſtifie a Backberond, or Common Thiever; with all Lewdneſs and Wantonneſs of Heart, meerly for Spoil and Lucre, to rob Orchards, and waſte Vineyards […]1674, a Perſon of Honour, Defensio Legis: Or, The Whole State of England Inquiſited and Defended for General Satisfaction, London, page 260:
- The Receiver Is as bad as the Thiever.1732, Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British, volume I, London, page 274: