Word Meanings - DRAWLATCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A housebreaker or thief. Old Play .
Related words: (words related to DRAWLATCH)
- THIEF
thiaf, OS. theof, thiof, D. dief, G. dieb, OHG. diob, Icel. , Sw. tjuf, Dan. tyv, Goth. , , and perhaps to Lith. tupeti to squat or 1. One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft. There came a privy thief, men clepeth - HOUSEBREAKER
One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking. - THIEFLY
Like a thief; thievish; thievishly. Chaucer. - SEA THIEF
A pirate. Drayton. - WATER THIEF
A pirate. Shak.