RAPPAREE, properly a short pike (Irish rapaire); the term being hence applied in the war in Ireland from 1688—92 to the
Irish irregular soldiers armed with this weapon. It thus
became synonymous with robber or freebooter, and in 1707
appears in the title of an act (6 Anne, cap. II) " for the more effectual suppression of . . . robbers and rapparees."
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