A highwayman was a thief and brigand who preyed on travelers. This type of outlaw, usually, traveled and robbed by horse, as compared to a foot pad who traveled and robbed on foot. Mounted robbers were widely considered to be socially superior to footpads.[1] Such robbers operated in Great Britain and Ireland from the Elizabethan era until the early 19th century.
The word highwayman is first known to be used in the year 1617;[2] other euphemisms included "knights of the road" and "gentlemen of the road." In the 19th-century American West, highwaymen were known as road agents.[3] In the same time period in Australia, they were known as bush rangers.
It means someone who robbed travelers in the pre-automobile days.
It can also mean a highway patrol, or D.O.T. officer, in trucker lingo.
They stole from travellers and threatened them with a gun until they gave them their valuables.
you would find a highway men on highways and byways
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the highwayman were about in the 18th century
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A highwayman was a thief who robbed people traveling on the highway. I do not know that anyone "needed" a highwayman.
what is the famouse catchfrase for the highwayman
what qualities are required to be a highwayman
Who is the protagonist in the highwayman
The Happy Highwayman was created in 1939.
Who was the first highwayman ever to be caught
Which Highwayman? There were hundreds over the years.