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What does highwayman mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word highwayman? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (historical) A person usually mounted on horseback who robbed travelers on public roads.
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Was he not avenged on the highwayman at last, seeing that the biter was bitten!
Did you ever play you were a highwayman, or an elephant, or anything of that sort?
A special train, one car and an engine, would be made up there, and the highwayman would sleep in the Visalia jail that night.
In Yorkshire he became an extortioner and highwayman, eventually in partnership with Thomas Tankard and Edward Bracy.
As he took her to a tavern in York, Nance explained that she had left her lover, a married highwayman.
It is like giving of free will to the highwayman the purse he expected to have a fight for.

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