Noun

(en noun)

One who depredates, or commits depredation.

*1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :

*:An open heath, a close plantation, were alike subjects of apprehension; and the whistle of a shepherd lad was instantly converted into the signal of a depredator .

*{{quote-book, year=1836, author=Robert Huish, title=Lander's Travels, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Orders were now given to fire on all depredators , royal or plebeian; and after a few shots had been discharged without producing any fatal effects, the thieves hid themselves amongst the rocks, and were merely seen peeping through the crevices. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, title=The Wrecker, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The sight of her old neighbourly depredator shivering at the door in tatters, the very oddity of his appeal, touched a soft spot in the spinster's heart. }}