sea rover

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sea rover

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Compare Danish sørøver, German Seeräuber, Norwegian sjørøver, Swedish sjörövare.

noun sea rovers

UK, archaic, colloquial A herring.
literally One who travels the ocean; one who spends a great deal of time at sea. Then down the brave man lay with his bolster under his head and his whole company of sea-rovers at rest beside him.
Similar: corsair
A pirate, buccaneer or privateer; an ocean-going marauder. 1549, “A Proclamacion, for tale tellers” in All such proclamacions, as haue been sette furthe by the Kynges Maiestie, London, 1551, pp. lvi-lvij, […] there be dispersed and seuered abrode, sundery light, leude, idle, sedicious, busie, and disordered persones, whereof the moste part haue neither plac
Similar: pirate

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@misc{sea_rover_2026,
  title = {sea rover},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sea%20rover},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}