Definition of "train-robber" []

• One who robs a railway-train. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In the place of the highwayman of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries came the motor-car bandit and the train-robber."
• ""All right, but the stunt is ter keep our eyes peeled fer ther train-robber syndicate's office.""
• ""To-morrow we start for the West, and the capture of the head men of the train-robber syndicate, and the extermination of the business.""