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Sea rover
Definitions
- 1 A herring. British, archaic, colloquial
- 2 someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation wordnet
- 3 One who travels the ocean; one who spends a great deal of time at sea. literally
"Then down the brave man lay with his bolster under his head and his whole company of sea-rovers at rest beside him."
- 4 A pirate, buccaneer or privateer; an ocean-going marauder.
"1549, “A Proclamacion, for tale tellers” in All such proclamacions, as haue been sette furthe by the Kynges Maiestie, London, 1551, pp. lvi-lvij, […] there be dispersed and seuered abrode, sundery light, leude, idle, sedicious, busie, and disordered persones, whereof the moste part haue neither place to inhabite in neither seketh any staye to liue by, but hauyng been either condempned of Felonies, & prison breakers, runne from the warres and sea rouers, departed from the kynges guarrisons, and loyterers, whereby thei become desperate persons […]"
Etymology
Compare Danish sørøver, German Seeräuber, Norwegian sjørøver, Swedish sjörövare.
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