Associations to the word «Highwayman»

Wiktionary

HIGHWAYMAN, noun. (historical) A person usually mounted on horseback who robbed travelers on public roads.

Dictionary definition

HIGHWAYMAN, noun. A holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope