vagabond

noun

the police had hauled him up as a vagabond:

itinerant, wanderer, nomad, wayfarer, traveler, gypsy, rover, tramp, vagrant, drifter, transient, migrant, homeless person, derelict, beachcomber, down-and-out, beggar, person of no fixed address/abode, knight of the road, bird of passage, rolling stone;

North American hobo;

Australian bagman, knockabout, overlander, sundowner, whaler;

informal bag lady;

North American, informal bum, bindlestiff;

South African, informal outie;

Australian, New Zealand, informal derro.

adjective

a vagabond poacher:

itinerant, wandering, nomadic, traveling, ambulatory, mobile, on the move, journeying, roving, roaming, vagrant, transient, floating, migrant, migrating, migratory;

refugee, displaced, homeless, rootless;

drifting, unsettled, footloose;

of no fixed address/abode;

archaic errant.