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
By the side of this imaginative picture of a poor English sea rover, let me place another, an authentic one, of a French forban or pirate in the same seas.
From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude
The dead sea rover was seated at a rough oak table with his head resting on his hand as if in deep thought.
From The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic by John Henry Goldfrap
These fair waters and yellow-rimmed, palm-nodding islands are the traditional home of the sea rover.
From The Last Galley Impressions and Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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