Definition of "depredators" [depredators]

• Plural form of depredator. (noun)

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• "The farm-house or mansion-house, (for, from its size and appearance, it might have been the one or the other,) was a large but low building, and the walls of the out-houses were sufficiently strong to resist any band of casual depredators."
• "Perth to battles and skirmishes with the restless Highland depredators, and with other enemies, foreign and domestic."
• "An alarm was at length given, military were called in, the depredators were pursued, the booty recovered, and Wilson and Robertson tried and condemned to death, chiefly on the evidence of an accomplice."