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rapparee|ræpəˈriː|
Forms: α. 7 rappery, pl. -ies, rap(p)ories. β. 7–8 raparee, 8 rapperee, 7– rapparee.
[a. Ir. rapaire ‘a short pike, a raparee’ (O'Reilly; cf. ropaire ‘a rapier, a treacherous violent person’, ibid.); the β-forms app. originated in the pl., after the southern Irish pl. rapairídhe (-ijə).]
†1. A half-pike. Obs. rare—1.
1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2529/3 Both Horse and Foot are very ill Armed, the latter having for the most part only Scythes, or Half Pikes called Rapories.
2. Hist. An Irish pikeman or irregular soldier, of the kind prominent during the war of 1688–92; hence, an Irish bandit, robber, or freebooter.
α1690T. Harrison in Ellis Orig. Lett Ser. ii. IV. 212 The fugitive Irish, or Rapperies, who steal in the night. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Rapparies, Wild Irish Robbers, and Out-laws.
attrib.1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2596/3 Another of our Parties have cut off a Rappery Colonel, with 50 of his Men.
β1690Mackenzie Siege London-Derry 2/2 These were afterwards called Rapparee's, a sort of Irish Vultures that follow their Armies to pray on the spoil. 1692Siege Lymerick 3 This day several notorious Rapparees were brought Prisoners into our Camp. 1707Act 6 Anne 11 An Act for the more effectual suppression of..robbers and rapparees. 1745Berkeley Let. to Gervais 24 Nov. in Fraser Life viii. 304 We have been alarmed with a report that a great body of rapparees is up in the county of Kilkenny. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 73 The English complained that it was no easy matter to catch a Rapparee.
attrib.1834Ainsworth Rookwood iv. vi, O'Hanlon..That o'er the broad province of Ulster, the Raparee banner unfurled. 1888H. D. Traill William III 87 The rapparee Irish levies who formed the bulk of James's force.
b. fig., or extended to persons of similar character in other countries.
1693J. Edwards Author. O. & N. Test. 397 These zealots, these Jewish rapparees and assassins. 1720J. Johnson Canons Eng. Ch. I. Ee j b, Let..Rapperees and Freebooters, incur the severest Wrath of God. 1816Scott Antiq. xiii, This rapparee promised him mountains of wealth. 1833Marryat P. Simple xiii, By that time we had arrived at the door..I paid the rapparee, and in I popped. |