n. | 1. | One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear.
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ROBBER. One who commits a robbery. One who feloniously and forcibly takes goods or money to any value from the person of another by violence or putting him, in fear.
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