Plunderer

Usage examples of reaver.

It was a center of robbers and reavers, and of certain illicit trades of Tinsen from the west, and various outer islands to the south.

Once the skiff crew began boarding, drawing all the reavers aft, five waterlogged Manitou sailors managed to swim around to the bow and clamber aboard, using loops of dangling, cable.

During the previous battle, reavers had begun to build some sort of a strange tower there, with blue spires made of mucilage that twisted up like narwhale horns.

Thalia, Captain Poulandres, Baltha, Kau, most of the rads, most of the reavers, nearly all of the Manitou crew, including the young navigator who had helped Maia and her twin find their way through the dazzling complexity of the world-wall.

And few vines or rootlike creepers swung from overhead to brush against them, for these too had snapped away as the reaver army marched beneath.

To the northwest, the frowth giants waded among the reavers, their huge iron-bound staves rising and crashing down.

Scot reavers were not left behind until the column had crossed the Tees and were into Swaledale itself.

Perhaps a lantern got smashed while the reavers battled the owners for their cargo.

The image of a whole town called to arms because some clumsy reavers spilled a lantern had them in stitches.

As during the night of the reavers, Leie listened avidly and joined in this bucket brigade, even when the snippets were so obviously debased as to be worthless.

What need, with reavers and other coastal troubles far away, and men banished during rut time?

From their accents and features, she guessed the two shorter, stockier ones must be from the Southern Isles, legendary home of reavers and sharp traders, while the other two, including the rangy blonde, spoke with the sharp twang typical of this part of Eastern Continent.

It had all been decided at a meeting, three days after the reavers dumped them on this spirelike isle whose name, if any, must be lost to another age.

Leie and the reavers were going to put her ashore, and sail off with Renna!

Through the blue funk of her thoughts, she followed Naroin along a trail overlooking the bright sea, walking in silence back to where the reavers had dumped enough food and supplies to last until the next promised shipment.