Crossword-Solution: REAVERS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

They are broken folk from all countries, justice-fliers, prison-breakers, reavers, escaped bondsmen, murderers and staff-strikers who have made their way to this outland place and hold it against all comers.

The highlands of Scotland supplied a safe refuge to the "gentlemen reavers," who carried off the cattle of the Sassenach landlords.

What has become--we wonder--of Dartmoor Prison? During that long war its huge and hideous bulk was filled with Frenchmen--ay, "Men of all climes--attach'd to none--were there;" --a desperate race--robbers and reavers, and ruffians and rapers, and pirates and murderers--mingled with the heroes who, fired by freedom, had fought for the land of lilies, with its vine-vales and "hills of sweet myrtle"--doomed to die in captivity, immured in that doleful mansion on the sullen moor.

There went my lord ahead, and here pounded I after, and alongside rode my lord Marius, watching his wife and itching to be back and have it out with those reavers.

The gentry lived in their strong Peel castles; even the larger farm-houses were fortified; and bloodhounds were trained for the purpose of tracking the cattle-reavers to their retreats in the hills.