Obs. Also 7– hayler. [f. prec. + -ER1.] A marauder, a marauding or foraging soldier; a freebooter; a highwayman, brigand.

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1600.  Holland, Livy, XXII. xli. 458 g. To stop and impeach the forragers and boothalers [prædatoribus] of Anniball.

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1609.  C. Butler, Fem. Mon. (1634), 139. The very Boot-halers, or Highway-robbers, are more worthy favour than such.

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1621.  Bp. Mountagu, Diatribæ, 182. A common Boote-hayler.

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1686.  trans. Chardin’s Trav., Coron. Solyman, 145. He held a correspondence with those Boot-halers the Cosaques.

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