deerstealer

Noun

 * 1) One who steals or illicitly takes a deer, especially in England in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
 * 2) * 1859, Calendar of State Papers Domestic Series of the Reign of James 1. Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majestyʼs Public Record Office Edited by Mary Anne Everett Green: 1623-1625 with addenda, page 91, record of events of 9 October 1623:
 * 30. I. [The Same] to Att. Gen. Coventry. Two under keepers of Lord Denney, deerstealers, committed by him to Chelmsford gaol, have escaped