One who lives by pillage and robbery: a freebooter, bandit; especially a member of one of the gangs of desperadoes infesting the mountainous…

An armed robber or marauder; a freebooter or highwayman; a desperate fellow or thief. Obsolete.

In thief errant, arrant thief originally an outlawed robber roving about the country, a freebooter, bandit, highwayman; hence, a public, notorious…

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

gen. = freebooter, n. Obsolete. rare.

literal. One who is proscribed or outlawed; hence, a lawless desperate marauder, a brigand: usually applied to members of the organized gangs which…

A legendary English outlaw, popular from medieval times, who, according to tradition, stole from the rich to give to the poor. Hence allusively…

Scottish History. = moss-trooper, n.

In extended use: a bandit or raider (in Scotland beyond the Borders, or elsewhere); a member of an undisciplined or renegade group. Now rare.

A mounted soldier, mercenary, etc., not belonging to a regular or established military body (cf. freelance, n. 1, rough-rider, n. 3); (also) a…

gen. Brigand, freebooter, marauder.