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Definition of Cracksmen
1. cracksman [n] - See also: cracksman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cracksmen
Literary usage of Cracksmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 by Thomas Allston Brown (1903)
"2, followed by " The Three cracksmen," and concluding with " The ... In the
evening, " George Harrington, the Gentleman Highwayman," " The Three cracksmen," ..."
2. The Works of W. E. Henley by William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908)
"You 're the King of the cracksmen, ain't you ? BRODIE. Why not! ... Hark ye,
Badger, it's all very well to be King of the cracksmen, as you call it; ..."
3. The Metropolitan (1835)
"The other class, (swell cracksmen,) are altogether another kind of beings ; the
wary and comparatively wealthy housebreaker never allows the men with whom ..."
4. Revelations of Prison Life: With an Enquiry Into Prison Discipline and by George Laval Chesterton (1856)
"Most cracksmen are men who have been transported (lagged or served), and are
termed tried men. They are to be considered despe- ..."
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