Sea rover meaning

Noun: sea rover

Pronunciation:  (see row-vu(r))

Sea rover meaning:

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

Synonyms: pirate, buccaneer, sea robber

Derived forms: sea rovers
Quotations:

1. Margaret Cezair-Thompson – This is a story that could only have taken place in the tropics, where the climate draws sea rovers, pirates, and desperadoes from all corners of the world. They come and go, these adventurers, bedazzled and dazzling, and they leave women behind, lovers, who repeat outlandish tales, murmuring to themselves unheard, and if heard, not believed.

Sample sentences:

1. The scarcity of data is due in part to the familiar problems of gathering information on homosexuality, but it is also a result of the difficulty plaguing research endeavors on Caribbean piracy. Not only was the corpse of the last potential interviewee dipped in tar and chained to a gibbet between flood marks at Wapping Stairs when George II was King of England, but the usual literary remnants particular to subjects of historical investigation were never extant for the cadre of illiterate and inarticulate sea rovers.