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Housebreaker

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house·break·ing  (housbrkng)
n.
The act of unlawfully breaking into and entering another's house.
housebreaker n.
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Noun1.Housebreakerhousebreaker - a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house
cat burglar
burglar - a thief who enters a building with intent to steal
2.housebreaker - a wrecker of houses; "in England a housewrecker is called a housebreaker"
housewrecker
wrecker - someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job


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In the midst of them, the hangman, ever busy and ever worse than useless, was in constant requisition; now, stringing up long rows of miscellaneous criminals; now, hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burning people in the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now burning pamphlets at the door of Westminster Hall; to-day, taking the life of an atrocious murderer, and to-morrow of a wretched pilferer who had robbed a farmer's boy of sixpence.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
I've heerd the judge say, sometimes, to a highwayman or housebreaker as had tied the ladies neck and heels--you'll excuse me making mention of it, my darlings--and put 'em in a cellar, that he showed no consideration to women.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
A common housebreaker can have few terrors for one who has braved those of mid-ocean single-handed; my would-be visitor had no longer any for me; for it had not yet occurred to me to connect him with the voices and the footsteps to which, indeed, I had been unable to swear before the doctor.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
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