depredator
English
Etymology
From depredate + -or.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: de‧pre‧da‧tor
Noun
depredator (plural depredators)
- One who depredates, or commits depredation.
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
- An open heath, a close plantation, were alike subjects of apprehension; and the whistle of a shepherd lad was instantly converted into the signal of a depredator.
- 1836, Robert Huish, Lander's Travels:
- Orders were now given to fire on all depredators, royal or plebeian; and after a few shots had been discharged without producing any fatal effects, the thieves hid themselves amongst the rocks, and were merely seen peeping through the crevices.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, The Wrecker:
- The sight of her old neighbourly depredator shivering at the door in tatters, the very oddity of his appeal, touched a soft spot in the spinster's heart.
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