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RAPPAREE

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 909 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RAPPAREE  , properly a

short pike (Irish rapaire); the
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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 .

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