What did highwayman do?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

They stole from travellers and threatened them with a gun until they gave them their valuables.

Answer 4

you would find a highway men on highways and byways