freebooter

Of life and property a fierce freebooter despoiled mankind; over the ways beset by him might no one living pass.

Bootmakers, like tailors, commonly sit cross-legged at their work, and hold pronounced political views; hence the term freebooter.

The freebooter of the green-pea trade touched his wet forelock respectfully.

We soon discovered crab-claws projecting from its shell, and recognized it as a hermit-crab, an original freebooter.

Johnnie Armstrong, the famous Border freebooter, took his title from this place, whereof not a stone remains.