reaver
noun/ˈɹiːvə(ɹ)/
Etymology From Middle English revere (also revour, reiver, refar, reavere), from Old English rēafere (“reaver; robber; spoiler”), equivalent to reave + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Roower, Dutch rover, German Räuber, Swedish rövare, Icelandic raufari. Compare robber, rover.
1
One who reaves; a plunderer, marauder, or pillager.
- nobody knows where these reavers from hell roam in their errands.1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 7:
- Hyponyms
- pirate