sea rover
Americannoun
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a pirate.
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a pirate ship.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of sea rover
First recorded in 1570–80
Example Sentences
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Breezy, blunt Cap Rieber, an office-bound sea rover who feels equally at home in any of the world's ports, was boss of Texas' tanker fleet, and made a specialty of pushing sales of Texaco abroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1851 Lennox-Boyd's great uncle, Benjamin Boyd, a wealthy London broker turned sea rover, rowed off from his yacht Wanderer for a spot of hunting on one of the Solomon Islands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps they had heard from some bold sea rover that we had come, but that we were not wholly gods!
From 1492 by Johnston, Mary
I hauled it down with mine own hands from a pirate ship in my youth, when we captured the bark of that nefarious sea rover Captain Anthony.
From Marjorie by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
Francis I. was allied with the other great maritime power, Turkey, against the Emperor, in 1543; and the old sea rover actually brought his fleet of one hundred and fifty ships to Marseilles.
From The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Lane-Poole, Stanley
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