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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear.

Some roving

robber

calling to his fellows.

Milton.

Syn. – Thief; depredator; despoiler; plunderer; pillager; rifler; brigang; freebooter; pirate. See

Robber crab

(Zool.)

(a)

A purse crab

(b)

Any hermit crab.

–

Robber fly

(Zool.)

Same as

Hornet fly

, under

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Robber gull

(Zool.)

a jager gull.

, n.

In law, one that takes goods or money from the person of another by force or menaces, and with a felonious intent.

In a looser sense, one who takes that to which he has no right; one who steals, plunders or strips by violence and wrong.