Thief-taker

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone whose job it is to find and capture thieves. historical

    "In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners."

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"The thief-taker arrested many thieves at the same time."

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