PILLAGE, PILLAGED, PILLAGING
ADJECTIVES
1532 — DIREPTITIOUS characterized by pillaging, plundering, or robbery → obs.
1538 — POLLED plundered, pillaged → obs.
1659 — PREDATITIOUS adj. characterized by plundering, pillaging, or robbing; predatory → obs.
1844 — HARRIED plundered, robbed, pillaged → Sc.
NOUNS
1375 — PREY a seizing or taking by force or violence; pillaging, ravaging → obs.
1420 — RAPINE a seizing and taking away by force the property of others; plunder, pillage, robbery
1494 — RAPINES acts of violent robbery or pillage
NOUNS, PERSON
1513 — POLLER a plunderer, a pillager, a robber → obs.
1589 — SACKER one who sacks, pillages, or plunders; one who takes a town by storm
1645 — 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 → orig. Sc.
VERBS
1205 — HARRY to overrun a place or territory with an army; to ravage by war or invasion; to lay waste, to sack, to pillage
1325 — PREY to take booty or plunder; to commit pillage → obs.
1425 — SPREATH to pillage or plunder → Sc. obs.
1490 — POLL to plunder or pillage by excessive taxation; to rob, to fleece, to strip, to cheat
1574 — BEPILL to pillage completely → obs.
1677 — HERRY to rob, to plunder, to pillage; used esp. of robbing birds’ nests → Sc. & Eng. dial.