The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sea rover \Sea" rov"er\ One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context British colloquial archaic English) A herring. 2 (context literally English) One who roams about the ocean much of the time. 3 A pirate, buccaneer or privateer; an ocean-going marauder.
WordNet
n. someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation [syn: pirate, buccaneer, sea robber]
Wikipedia
Sea Rover may refer to:
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, a British Royal Navy submarine commissioned in 1943 and sold in 1949
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, originally SP-1014, a United States Navy tug in commission from 1918 to 1921
Usage examples of "sea rover".
The man who faced the sea rover now was no giant, but a short, round-bellied little man with a face all creases, sprouting seedling whiskers of a red beard as the only clue to what his vanished hair might once have been.
That could only mean that some vital magical connection existed between the sea rover and this thing from the deeps.
One might have thought she was a great lady, and not the insolent, though curvaceous, brat of a boorish sea rover.
One might have thought she was a great lady, and not the insolent, though curvacious, brat of a boorish sea rover.