abactor

Definition

One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "[…] not only from straying, but, as in time of warr, from invaders and abactors […]"
• "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."