deerstealer

== English == === Etymology === From deer +‎ stealer. === Noun === deerstealer (plural deerstealers) One who steals or illicitly takes a deer, especially in England in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. 1859, Calendar of State Papers Domestic Series of the Reign of James 1. Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majestyʼs Public Record Office Edited by Mary Anne Everett Green: 1623-1625 with addenda, page 91, record of events of 9 October 1623: 30. I. [The Same] to Att. Gen. Coventry. Two under keepers of Lord Denney, deerstealers, committed by him to Chelmsford gaol, have escaped […]