Word Meanings - DESPOLIATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stripping or plundering; spoliation. Bailey.

PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages.
BAILEY
ballium bailey, OF. bail, baille, a palisade, baillier to inclose, 1. The outer wall of a feudal castle. 2. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. 3. A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as,
STRIPPING
The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
STRIPPER
One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
SPOLIATION
Injury done to a document. (more info) 1. The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation. Legal spoliation, which will impoverish one part of the community in order to corrupt the remainder. Sir G. C. Lewis. 2. Robbery or plunder in
STRIPPET
A small stream. "A little brook or strippet." Holinshed.
PLUNDERAGE
The embezzlement of goods on shipboard. Wharton.
PLUNDER
Etym: 1. To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South. 2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy
DESPOLIATION
A stripping or plundering; spoliation. Bailey.
EXSPOLIATION
Spoliation. Bp. Hall.