1. raiders or plunderers who attack and rob others
Usage: archaic; historical

Examples

• The border reavers terrorized the countryside for decades.
• Medieval reavers would strike villages at dawn and disappear with their loot.
• The castle was built to defend against reavers from the north.
• Historical accounts describe reavers as fierce horsemen who lived by plunder.
• The king sent troops to hunt down the reavers plaguing the trade routes.
• Border reavers were common along the Scottish-English frontier in medieval times.