FREEBOOTER
NOUNS, PERSON
► BERSERK a wild Norse warrior of great strength and ferocious courage, who fought on the battlefield with a frenzied fury known as the ‘berserker rage’; often a lawless bravo or freebooter → 1879
► BERSERKER a wild Norse warrior of great strength and ferocious courage, who fought on the battlefield with a frenzied fury known as the ‘berserker rage’; often a lawless bravo or freebooter → 1822
► JAYHAWKER a freebooter; a guerilla; a marauder during the Kansas troubles and since extended to all bandits → 1887 Amer. sl.
► MARAUDER one who roves in quest of plunder; a freebooter, a plunderer → 1698
► MOSS-TROOPER a member of any of the marauding gangs which, in the mid 17th century, carried out raids across the ‘mosses’ of the Scottish Border; a Border pillager or freebooter → 1645 orig. Sc.
► RAPPAREE an Irish pikeman or irregular soldier, of the kind prominent during the war of 1688-92; hence, an Irish bandit, robber, plunderer, or freebooter; any ruffianly vagabond → 1690
► SNAPHANCE an armed robber or marauder; a freebooter or highwayman; a thief or desperate fellow → 1538 obs.