sea rover

noun

1. a pirate.
2. a pirate ship.

Other Words From

• sea-roving adjective noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of sea rover¹

First recorded in 1570–80

Example Sentences

They were bronzed and clear-eyed, these sea rovers, beguiling the journey with gay speech and with deep, mighty laughs.

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I can see no other reason for the growth of Ravello and La Scala than the paramount necessity in the early Middle Ages of safety from sea rovers.

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The origin of the Buccaneers, or hunters, and the Flibustiers, or sea rovers, as the Dutch called them, was contemporaneous.

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“Here comes a sea rover now,” called Merry, 160 scanning the entrance to the harbor where a ship could be seen outlined against the blue.

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It may perhaps be explained by remembering that Tory Island, or Toirinis, was a stronghold of the Fomorians, whom Keating describes as "sea rovers of the race of Cam, who fared from Africa."

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Related Words

• raider