Word Meanings - DRAWLATCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A housebreaker or thief. Old Play .

Related words: (words related to DRAWLATCH)

• THIEF
  thiaf, OS. theof, thiof, D. dief, G. dieb, OHG. diob, Icel. , Sw. tjuf, Dan. tyv, Goth. , , and perhaps to Lith. tupeti to squat or 1. One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft. There came a privy thief, men clepeth
• HOUSEBREAKER
  One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking.
• THIEFLY
  Like a thief; thievish; thievishly. Chaucer.
• SEA THIEF
  A pirate. Drayton.
• WATER THIEF
  A pirate. Shak.