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marauder|məˈrɔːdə(r)|
Also 7–8 maroder.
[f. maraud v. + -er1; after F. maraudeur.]
One who roves in quest of plunder; a freebooter, plunderer.
1698[R. Ferguson] View Eccles. 89 To be a Maroder and Pillager upon the street and Field of Humane Credit and Reputation is worse..than to turn common Padders. 1712Lond. Gaz. No. 5031/5 A Band of Maroders, consisting of Men of several Nations. 1782Vallancey Collect. De Rebus Hibernicis No. 10. 72 note, To keep the cattle safe by night from moroders [sic]. 1808Sir J. Moore in Jas. Moore Camp. in Spain (1809) 19 He is determined to shew no mercy to plunderers and marauders. 1870Burton Hist. Scot. (1873) VI. lxx. 212 The marauders hovered round them like vultures round a wounded man.
b. transf. (e.g. of animals).
1764Grainger Sugar Cane ii. 79 Some place decoys, nor will they not avail, Replete with roasted crabs; in every grove These fell marauders gnaw. 1847H. Miller First Impr. v. (1861) 65 Exposed to every hungry marauder of the deep. 1862Trollope Orley F. xxii, The raisins shall become the prey of those audacious marauders only who dare to face the presence of the ghost. |