Someone who obtains anything from a person through an illegal use of fear, whether by force, threats, or any other undue exercise of power (Webster's).
"I lodged in a dreary overpriced inn crouching in the lee of the Towers. I got up at dawn after many bad dreams, and paid the extortioner for bed and breakfast and inaccurate directions as to the way I should take, and set forth afoot to find Otherhord, an ancient Fastness not far from Rer. I was lost within fifty yards of the inn."
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969).
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