abactor
noun
- one who steals livestock by driving them away
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈæˌbæk.tɚ/ / /æˈbæk.tɚ/
noun
Etymology: From Late Latin abactor (“cattle rustler”), from abigō (“drive away”); from ab (“from, away from”) + agō (“drive”).
- 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 […]”
“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.”