Marauder

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Marauder \Ma*raud`er\, n. [From {Maraud}, v.: cf. F. maraudeur.]
     A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who
     pillages. --De Quincey.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  marauder
       n : someone who attacks in search of booty [syn: {predator}, {vulture},
            {piranha}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "marauder":
     bandit, brigand, buccaneer, bummer, depredator, desperado,
     despoiler, forager, forayer, freebooter, looter, pillager, pirate,
     plunderer, raider, rapparee, ravager, ravisher, reiver, rifler,
     sacker, spoiler, spoliator, wrecker
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MARAUDER. One who, while employed in the army as a soldier, commits a 
  larceny or robbery in the neighborhood of the camp, or while wandering away 
  from the army. Merl. Repert. h.t.