(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:28:17

Rap`pa*ree" (?), n.

A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary.

[Written also raparee.]

 

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