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housebreaker (ˈhaʊsbreɪkə(r)) 1. One who breaks open and enters a house with intent to commit robbery or other felony.c 1340 Cursor M. 6747 (Fairf.) Thefe housbreker in any stounde. 1483 Cath. Angl. 190/2 An Howse breker, apercularius. 1662 J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 280 A House-breaker co...
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Housebreaker (business)
A housebreaker is an organisation that specialises in the disposition of large, old residential buildings.
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John Smith (housebreaker)
John Smith (c. 1661 – after 1727), also known by the alias John Wilson, was a London housebreaker, most notable for his three evasions of execution. Soon after that, he enlisted as a soldier, where he acquainted with bad associates and started his career as a housebreaker.
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The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories
The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by John Cheever. "John Cheever's 'Housebreaker,' Welcome as Ever", The Washington Post, July 20, 2004.
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cracksman
cracksman slang. (ˈkræksmən) [f. crack n. 6 + man: cf. sportsman, etc.] A housebreaker.1812 J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Cracksman, a house-breaker. 1838 Dickens O. Twist II. 86 You'll be a fine young cracksman. 1886 Blackw. Mag. 597 The skilled ‘cracksmen’ thoroughly versed in the practical mechanics of...
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Rex Wilson (director)
Tom Brown's Schooldays (1916)
The Life of Lord Kitchener (1917)
Ora Pro Nobis (1917)
Quinneys (1919)
Unmarried (1920)
Tilly of Bloomsbury (1921)
Housebreaker
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mill-ken
mill-ken slang. Obs. [f. mill v.2 + ken.] A housebreaker.1669 Nicker Nicked in Harl. Misc. (1809) II. 108 Kidnappers, vouchers, mill-kens, piemen, decoys [etc.]. 1673 in R. Head Canting Acad. 191 The fourth is a Mill-ken, to crack up a Door. 1743 Fielding Jon. Wild i. v, The same capacity which qual...
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William Duell (criminal)
See also
Gallows
John Smith (housebreaker)
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Year of birth unknown
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1740 crimes in Europe
English people convicted of rape
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Isha Sharvani
In 2013, she played the title role as a housebreaker in the Malayalam short film Esha, a part of the anthology 5 Sundarikal.
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Half-hanging
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Hanging
Waterboarding
John Smith (housebreaker), who earned the nickname Half-hanged Smith after surviving a sentence of hanging
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Oliver Twist (1999 TV series)
Before Oliver can tell his story, he is kidnapped while on an errand for Brownlow by two of Fagin's adult accomplices, Bill Sikes (a housebreaker) and Fagin, still determined to fulfill his contract with Monks and discredit Oliver, sends him off with Bill Sikes and another housebreaker, Toby Crackit,
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Brucklay Castle
In 1952 the building was sold to the housebreaker, Charles Brand of Dundee Ltd.
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New Wave (The Auteurs album)
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One More Chance (2005 Singaporean film)
In jail, he is put in the same cell as compulsive gambler Ong Beng Kuang and serial housebreaker Goh Chun Hwee.
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