reacher n.
(UK und.) a female thief, posing as a country woman come to market and gaining entrance to a rich man’s house by displaying stolen produce, waits for the servant girl to show the goods to her mistress, still in her bedroom, and in her absence takes everything valuable she can from the lower floor of the house and bolts.
 | Iests to make you merie 25: There is a new company arising [...] & thus call themselues Reachers [...] the Fox beneath [takes] what pray she can espy, to carry home to her den. |