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noun

Stealer n.

One who steals; a thief.

(Shipbuilding) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.

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Etymology of 'Stealer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stealer" Quotes from Famous Books

... "I ain't a stealer," cried Prudy. "Now, Gracie Clifford, I saw you once, and you was a-nippin' cream out of the cream-pot. You're a ...

— Little Prudy • Sophie May

... Issachar," answered Aziel, "being none other than the lady Elissa, daughter of Sakon, governor of this city, and our host, whom it has been my good fortune to rescue from a woman-stealer yonder in the ...

— Elissa • H. Rider Haggard

... the Ministers of State and Fomento in the spring of 1870, who started back aghast when the coffin-lid was lifted and disclosed the grim face of the Burgess of Ghent, just as Titian painted him,—the keen, bold face of a world-stealer. ...

— Castilian Days • John Hay

... STEALER. The foremost and aftermost plank in a strake, which drops short of the stem ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... The girl is gone! If you want to know where she is, apply to the police. Now, don't show your lying face here again! I will have you arrested! You are a child stealer! You and your ruffian had better never darken ...

— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage

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