"cowstealer" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From cow + stealer.",
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          "ref": "1695, François Maximilien Misson, A New Voyage to Italy, page 15:",
          "text": "They fixed his Skeleton to a Gibbet, upon that of an Oxe, because he had been a Cowstealer; they made Shoes of his Skin, and a Shirt of his Bowels.",
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          "ref": "1823, Mathew Carey, Vindiciae historicae: or Ireland vindicated, page 304, quoting Ormond",
          "text": "\"They find it more honourable and safe to be king's evidence, than a cowstealer, though that be their natural profession.\""
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          "ref": "1881, Folklore Society (Great Britain), Publications, page 248:",
          "text": "A Cowstealer's Trick.—“Some cowstealers will make a hole in a hott lofe newly drawn out of the oven, and putt it on an oxe's horn for a convenient time, and then they can turn their softned hornes the contrary way, so that the owner cannot [identify them].",
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          "ref": "2005, David Dobson, More Scottish Settlers, 1667-1827, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 91:",
          "text": "[…]\nMCHWOIL, DONALD, a cowstealer, who was banished to the Plantations, at Inverness ...",
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        "One who steals cattle."
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        "(possibly obsolete) One who steals cattle."
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