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abactor

US/ˈæˌbæk.tɚ/

abactor noun: one who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler.

Noun

abactor (plural abactors)

  1. (archaic) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler.
    • […] not only from straying, but, as in time of warr, from invaders and abactors […]1659, H. Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon the Books of the Psalms
    • But yesterday, / it was her husband / Who’d lost his life in the fight / As he beat the abactors back, / Who tried to seize their cattle.1992, Okkūr Mācāttiyar, translated by K.G. Seshadri, “Purananuru 279”, in Indian Literature, volume 35, number 149, page 27
    Synonyms:
    duffer, rustler

abactor meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

abactor in Tamil

கால்நடைத் திருடன்

abactor in Urdu

عادی مویشی چور, عادی سارق مويشياں

abactor in Bengali

একজন গবাদিপশু চোর, দস্যু

abactor in Kannada

ದನಕದಿಯುವವ, ತುರುಗಳ್ಳ

Synonyms of abactor

Forms of abactor

pluralabactors
alternative formabacter

Origin of abactor

From Late Latin abactor (“cattle rustler”), from abigō (“drive away”); from ab (“from, away from”) + agō (“drive”).

Questions about abactor

What does abactor mean?
Abactor means one who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler.
What is abactor in Tamil?
Abactor in Tamil is கால்நடைத் திருடன். See Abactor meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is abactor?
Abactor is a noun.
How do you pronounce abactor?
Abactor is pronounced /ˈæˌbæk.tɚ/ (US).
What is the plural of abactor?
The plural of abactor is abactors.

Words near abactor in the dictionary

  1. abacterially
  2. abacters
  3. abactinal
  4. abactinally
  5. abaction
  6. abactor
  7. abactors
  8. abaculi
  9. abaculus
  10. abacus
  11. abacuses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abactor (page history and authors); abactor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abactor (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abactor (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abactor (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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