The robber of a burgh, castle, or house. Burglary is called, in ancient law-books, hame-secken or hám-seen, house-violation.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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