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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 See also:

short See also:pike (Irish rapaire); the See also:term being hence applied in the See also:war in See also: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 See also:title of an See also:act (6 See also:Anne, cap. II) " for the more effectual suppression of .

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