noun. In Spanish history: A member of a body of Catalonian banditti who infested the Pyrenees in the 17th century.

noun. A Spanish guerrilla soldier in the Peninsular War; also one of a corps of irregulars employed by Napoleon in 1808 against the Spaniards.

noun. In modern Spain, the designation of the soldiers of certain local regiments of infantry, chiefly employed on escort duties.

noun. An irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit.

noun. An irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit.

"I drew breath to tell Tinker to keep an eye out for a rumoured Brescian miquelet-flint pistol but that made me think of modern weapons which made me think of revolvers which made me think of Arcellano so I shut up."

bandit