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Definition of Housebreakers
1. housebreaker [n] - See also: housebreaker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housebreakers
Literary usage of Housebreakers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"(Burglar), a small boy whom housebreakers employ to enter a house by a small
aperture. Tooler (thieves), a pickpocket; moU-tooler, female pickpocket. ..."
2. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"COMMON housebreakers — THIEVES WHO LAUGH AT LOCKS AND BOLTS — RECEIVERS OF STOLEN
GOODS — HOW A "FENCE" 18 CONDUCTED. Useless Locks and Bolts — The ..."
3. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"A bill to prevent housebreakers was read a 2d time, and committed. And the bill
to prevent the excessive ..."
4. Later Leaves: Being the Further Reminiscences of Montagu Williams by Montagu Stephen Williams (1891)
"... gambling-—The non-appearance of women to prosecute—Judicially separated for
the second time—A cool thief —Boot-stealers—Three typical housebreakers. ..."
5. Philip Musgrave, Or, Memoirs of a Church of England Missionary in the North by Joseph Abbott (1846)
"Psalmody—Chants—A Confirmation—housebreakers—A strange Dog— Mode of Computing
Time—Inflections. BEFORE I and the dissenting preacher, or, as he was more ..."
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