depredator en · NOUN
Etymology
From depredate + -or.
Meanings
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One who depredates, or commits depredation.
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.
1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “The ‘Norah Creina’”, in The Wrecker, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, pages 191–192:An open heath, a close plantation, were alike subjects of his apprehension; and the whistle of a shepherd lad was instantly converted into the signal of a depredator.
1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 61: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.
1836, Robert Huish, Lander’s Travels:
Forms
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| depredators | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (8)
ta கள்ளி (Translations) · fr déprédateur (Translations) · ota پلاچقهجی (Translations) · tr çapulcu (Translations) · ota چاپولجی (Translations) · de Plünderin (Translations) · ta கள்ளன் (Translations) · de Plünderer (Translations)