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Home Dictionary Name: depredationDepredation
The act of depredating or the state of being depredated the act of despoiling or making inroads as the sea often makes depredation on the land...
Depredable
Liable to depredation...
Depredatory
Tending or designed to depredate characterized by depredation plundering as a depredatory incursion...
Buccaneer
A robber upon the sea a pirate a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries...
Depredate
To subject to plunder and pillage to despoil to lay waste to prey upon...
Depredator
One who plunders or pillages a spoiler a robber...
Depredicate
To proclaim to celebrate...
Kakaralli
A kind of wood common in Demerara durable in salt water because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle...
Chiltern hundreds
Chiltern hundreds. A member of the House of Commons cannot resign his seat. He may, however, become disqualified by acceptance of an office of profit under the Crown. A member therefore usually vacates his seat by the acceptance of the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, or some other nominal office in the gift of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The practice began about the year 1750; but the duties and profits of the stewardship have long since ceased, and the office is only retained to serve this particular purpose. The Chiltern Hills, a range of chalk eminences separating the counties of Bedford and Hertford, were formerly covered with thick beechwood, and sheltered numerous robbers; to put these marauders down, and protect the inhabitants of the neighbourhood from their depredations, an officer was appointed under the Crown called the Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, which were Burnham, Desborough and Stoke.The Crown, for the convenience of the House at large, is ordinarily rea...
Herge
Herge, offenders who joined in a body of more than thirty-five to commit depredations, Ang. Sax....
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