A robber, plunderer, or spoiler.
"The riflers committed depredations on the most irreproachable persons, when any booty was to be got."
Thomas Carte, A general history of England (1750).
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There once was a man who could rifle
ReplyDeleteAnd not just with any ole trifle.
No he looked for de booty.
And got oh so nooty.
A huge sigh she was forced to stifle!