Rapparee n. : A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary.

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rapparees, tories, Rapparee, the Irish, Ireland, the tories, civilians, pike, Irish, 1690s, kerne, free encyclopedia, the Jacobite, weapons, Wood, Irish Catholics, outlaws, Williamite troops.

Defination from the web:
rapparee "Galloping Hogan" is said to have guided Patrick Sarsfield's cavalry raid that destroyed the Williamite's siege train at the siege of Limerick (1690) ... Many rapparee bands operated in Ireland well into the 18th century. ...