sea rover
Americannoun
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a pirate.
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a pirate ship.
Other Word Forms
- sea-roving adjective
Etymology
Origin of sea rover
First recorded in 1570–80
Example Sentences
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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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