A pirate, a sea-rover.

= scummer, n. 2. Obsolete. rare.

One who scours the sea; a rover, pirate.

A pirate. rare.

A pirate. Cf. sea-reaver n. at sea, n. compounds 1o(a).

figurative and in extended use. A person who goes about in search of plunder; a freebooter, a marauder; a raider, a plunderer, a despoiler.

Originally: a privateer. Later more generally: a piratical adventurer, a pirate; any person who goes about in search of plunder. Also figurative and…

A pirate, = rover, n.1 1a (Now often apprehended as meaning one who ‘roves’ over the sea: see rover, n.2 2.)

gen. = freebooter, n. Obsolete. rare.

figurative. A waterborne thief, a pirate. Also (frequently derogatory): a sailor, a boatman.

Chiefly poetic. A pirate; (sometimes more generally) a person engaged in stealing, plunder, etc., who travels by water.

A pirate or privateer. Also figurative. Now chiefly historical.

a pirate.

A native or inhabitant of Algeria or Algiers, an Algerian; esp. a pirate from Algiers. Now historical.

Chiefly Caribbean and U.S. southern. A person who lives or roams in the wild as a wandering hunter, fugitive, or pirate; spec. (occasionally) = maroon…

A pirate. Cf. water rat, n. 2b. Obsolete. rare.

In plural or collective singular. A group of privateers or pirates active in the Baltic Sea in the late 14th and early 15th centuries and renowned…

One of those Scandinavian adventurers who practised piracy at sea, and committed depredations on land, in northern and western Europe from the…

quasi-archaic. A pirate, sea-robber. In later use also: a privateer vessel.

a female pirate.