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Raider   Listen
noun
Raider  n.  One who engages in a raid. (U.S.)






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"Raider" Quotes from Famous Books



... took refuge in his pigpen, where one of the raiders found him trying to hide behind a fat mother of a family, who was suckling her farrow. The raider grinned: "Hello! How did you get here? Did you all come in the same litter?" A stuttering hero who had been bragging of what he would do to the enemy if he got at them, was surprised by Morgan's men with a demand for his surrender. He flung up his hands instantly. ...
— Stories Of Ohio - 1897 • William Dean Howells

... last ten or twelve years of his existence the poet suffered much from physical infirmities. Previously he was allowed to go almost daily into the town of Northampton, where he used to sit raider the portico of All Saints' Church, watching the gambols of the children around him, and the fleeting clouds high up in the sky. When these excursions came to be forbidden, he retired to his window-recess in the asylum, ...
— The Life of John Clare • Frederick Martin



Words linked to "Raider" :   stealer, war, buccaneer, sea rover, plunderer, sea robber, corporate investor, thief, pirate, raid, despoiler, freebooter, warfare, pillager



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