Cattle raiding is the act of stealing cattle.
In Australia, such stealing is often referred to as duffing, and the person as a duffer. In North America, especially in cowboy culture, cattle theft is dubbed rustling and an individual who engages in it is a rustler.
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“To-night the winds begin to rise
And roar from yonder dropping day:
The last red leaf is whirl’d away,
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—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)