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sea-rover
[rover2.]
1. A pirate, = rover2 1. (Now often apprehended as meaning one who ‘roves’ over the sea: see rover1 3.)
1579–80North Plutarch, Lucullus (1595) 541 Besides what the Pyrates and sea-rouers had hidden. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. i. Wks. 1851 III. 10 A certain Iland long before dispeopl'd and left waste by Sea-Roavers. 1786St. Papers in Ann. Reg. 280/1 They shall cause all such pirates and sea⁓rovers..to be brought to condign punishment. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 50 The Greeks like sea-rovers generally were first induced to build ships for the sake of plunder, rather than of commerce.
2. ‘A ship or vessel that is employed in cruizing for plunder’ (Webster, 1828–32).
Hence sea-roving vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1840Carlyle Heroes i. (1841) 52 Nor was it altogether nothing, even that wild sea-roving and battling, through so many generations. 1847Webster, Sea-roving, a. wandering on the ocean. 1855Kingsley Heroes, Argon. v. (1856) 134 Those crafty sea-roving Phæaces. 1900W. Watt Aberd. & Banff i. 19 Thorfinn..went sea-roving like all his kindred. |