cracksman

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And yet we have seen this cracksman captain—for he, too, was a captain at times—jostling and bellowing for odds among some of the highest and noblest of the land!

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, Robert Smith

On our removal to England, the "cracksman," was leg-ironed to me as an additional security against his making his escape.

From Six Years in the Prisons of England by Henderson, Frank

Storri, who had been studying London Bill as hard as ever that cracksman was studying him, re-began in earnest.

From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry

She has not been like it since the cracksman broke with her, Toinette.

From Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Hanshew, Thomas W.

The skill and daring of the cracksman makes him a marked man.

From American Sketches 1908 by Whibley, Charles