(British, colloquial, archaic) A herring.
Then down the brave man lay with his bolsterunder his head and his whole companyof sea-rovers at rest beside him.
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(literally) One who travels the ocean; one who spends a great deal of time at sea.
1549, “A Proclamacion, for tale tellers” in All such proclamacions, as haue been sette furthe by the Kynges Maiestie, London, 1551, pp.lvi-lvij,[http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A21454.0001.001]
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A pirate, buccaneer or privateer; an ocean-going marauder.
: there be dispersed and seuered abrode, sundery light, leude, idle, sedicious, busie, and disordered persones, whereof the moste part haue neither place to inhabite in neither seketh any staye to liue by, but hauyng been either condempn…
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