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Housebreaker

noun
1.
A burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house.  Synonym: cat burglar.
2.
A wrecker of houses.  Synonym: housewrecker.






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"Housebreaker" Quotes from Famous Books



... man's door and shout down every man's chimney. Feel how it takes liberties with everything, having taken primary liberty for itself; feel that the wind is always a vagabond and sometimes almost a housebreaker. But remember that in the days when free men had charters, they held that the wind itself was wild by authority; and was only free because ...
— A Miscellany of Men • G. K. Chesterton

... just rubbing his chin with the race card—he'll be a lord too, I suppose?" "No,—that's Mr. Gully, as honest a man as ever came here,—that's Crockford before him. The man on the right is Mr. C——, who they call the 'cracksman,' because formerly he was a professional housebreaker, but he has given up that trade, and turned gentleman, bets, and keeps a gaming-table. This little ugly black-faced chap, that looks for all the world like a bilious Scotch terrier, has lately come among us. He was a tramping pedlar—sold worsted stockings—attended country courses, and ...
— Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities • Robert Smith Surtees



Words linked to "Housebreaker" :   wrecker, housewrecker, cat burglar, burglar



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