Today's word: dragsman (n.) a thief who steals from vehicles.

Black Bart's real name was Charles Boles. He made a career of holding up stagecoaches in California in the 1870s.

My much-treasured Christmas present for 2017 is a book by Paul Anthony Jones: "The cabinet of linguistic curiosities". Each page contains a descriptive story about some obscure or archaic word. It occurred to me it would be a fun exercise to try and write, each day, a poem featuring the "word of the day" from the book.

Thanks for reading.

Image: Bailed Up, by Tom Roberts. Public Domain.

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