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One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.

To strip; to plunder; to fleece. [Colloq.] To shave a note, to buy it at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows. [Cant, U.S.]

One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer. By these shavers the Turks were stripped. Knolles.

To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of his kingdom, and deprived of eues. Pope.

One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.

To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.

The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation. Legal spoliation, which will impoverish one part of the community in order to corrupt the remainder. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Plunder, or booty. [Written also spuilzie, and spulye.] Sir W. Scott.

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark. And strippen her out of her rude array.…

bsistence. His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province. Addison.

the sick room, taking its name from the story that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London. [Eng.]

Not plundered. [Obs.] "Unpoll'd Arabian wealth." Fanshawe.

the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.

One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries. Of grim Vikings, and the rapture Of the sea fight, and the capture, And the life of slavery. Longfellow.

To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.

, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder.