Word info

highwaymen

Meaning

of Highwayman

Source: Webster's dictionary

Examples

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even. Nicolas Cage

A thread-bare coat is armour proof against highwaymen. Turkish Proverb

Bandits and marauding highwaymen preyed upon pilgrims who were routinely slaughtered, sometimes by the hundreds, as they attempted to make the journey from the coastline at Jaffa into the interior of the Holy Land. Source: Internet

Over the next month, 21 men were hanged, including, on January 10, 1864, Henry Plummer the sheriff of Bannack, who was also the leader of a major gang of highwaymen. Source: Internet

They hold mountains and defiles and possess considerable strength, and are mostly highwaymen. Source: Internet

He told them that the highwaymen, numbering around twenty, were drunken in his guest hall. Source: Internet

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