Definition of Highwaymen

1. Noun. (plural of highwayman) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Highwaymen

1. highwayman [n] - See also: highwayman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Highwaymen

highth
highths
highting
hightop
hightops
hights
highty-tighty
highwater
highwaters
highway
highway engineer
highway robbery
highway system
highwayless
highwayman
highwaymen (current term)
highways
highwaywoman
highwaywomen
highwire
highwire walker
highwires
highwrought
higre
higres
hijab
hijabed
hijabista
hijabistas
hijabless

Literary usage of Highwaymen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Recollections of the Table-talk of Samuel Rogers: To which is Added Porsoniana by Samuel Rogers (1887)
"Thomas Grenville,* while travelling with Lord Derby; and Lord Tankerville, while travelling with his father; were attacked by highwaymen: on both occasions ..."

2. Daniel Defoe: His Life, and Recently Discovered Writings ; Extending from by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"The same Day two highwaymen stop'da Coach, in the middle of the Day, and demanded their Money, on the same Road, just within the very Houses of Newington ..."

3. The History of England from the Accession of James the Second by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan (1858)
"Whatever might be the way in which a journey highwaymen. w&s performed, the travellers, unless they were numerous and well armed, ran considerable risk of ..."

4. Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne: Taken from Original Sources by John Ashton (1882)
"... forte el dure—Hanging in chains—highwaymen—Claude du Val lying in state—Ned Wicks and Lord Mohun : their swearing match —A highwayman hanged—highwaymen ..."

5. English Prose: Selections by Henry Craik (1907)
"At one time it was announced in the Gazette that several persons, who were strongly suspected of being highwaymen, but against whom there was not sufficient ..."

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