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Eavesdroppers, persons who listen under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, to hearken after discourse, and thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales. They were in early times presentable at the Court-leet, or indictable at the sessions, and punishable by fine and finding sureties for good behaviour, 2 Hawk. P.C., c. x., s. 58.