Word.ws English Dictionary

thief-takers

thief-takers is the plural of thief-taker.

Meaning of thief-taker

Noun

thief-taker (plural thief-takers)

  1. (historical) Someone whose job it is to find and capture thieves.
    • In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 63

Questions about thief-takers

What is thief-takers the plural of?
Thief-takers is the plural of thief-taker.

Words near thief-takers in the dictionary

  1. thief palm
  2. Thief River Falls
  3. thief tube
  4. thief tubes
  5. thief-taker
  6. thief-takers
  7. thiefcraft
  8. thiefdom
  9. thiefdoms
  10. thiefed
  11. thiefess

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thief-takers (page history and authors); thief-taker (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “thief-takers.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/thief-takers. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.