raider

Synonyms:

despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, spoiler

Examples:

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Khayr ad-Din

Barbary pirate (died in 1546)

Jean Laffite

French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826)

Sir Henry Morgan

a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688)

Bartholomew Roberts

a Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722)

Edward Thatch

an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)

Types:

buccaneer, pirate, sea robber, sea rover

someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

Barbary pirate, corsair

a pirate along the Barbary Coast

sea king

a Viking pirate chief

Type of:

stealer, thief

a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it