Meanings of sea robber in English

The Anglo-Saxon is a pirate, a land robber and a sea robber.

He was no longer the wild sea robber, but a refined, courteous gentleman.

One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.

The sea robber laughed as he looked back and saw that there was nothing to mark the place of the hidden rock.

The ship belonged to a sea robber called Ralph the Rover; and she was a terror to all honest people both on sea and shore.

How often, indeed, had the peaceful inhabitants trembled at the sight of the sea robber's narrow war-vessels creeping up the creek in search of plunder!

We whites have been land robbers and sea robbers from remotest time.

I hear and distinctly understand them to say that the pirates, the terrible sea robbers, are near.

The skipper was close to being the last man when former Sea Robber Thabiso Kutumela skipped past him.

We call sea robbers pirates.

Aldebaran had told us once that it was a story from England and that there had always been sea robbers there.

This news you bring of the arrival of a fresh army of these sea robbers at Havre renders our case desperate.

The success of the first band of sea robbers in Britain (S36) stimulated other bands to invade the island (477-541).