raider

[ rey-der ]

/ ˈreɪ dər /

a person or thing that raids.

a commando, ranger, or the like, specially trained to participate in military raids.

a light, fast warship, aircraft, etc., used in such a raid.

a person who seizes control of a company, as by secretly buying stock and gathering proxies.

Informal. a person who works within an organization for the purpose of gathering evidence of wrongdoing.

Origin of raider

First recorded in 1860–65; raid + -er¹

He seemed to have known from the first that the Raider would run that way.

Andersonville, Volume 2 |John McElroy
For a few seconds the German raider continued to roar eastward.

Dave Dawson with the R.A.F |R. Sidney Bowen
Dermot had taken from his pocket the cord that he had cut from the corpse of the second raider and laid it on the table.

The Elephant God |Gordon Casserly
The boy, to tell the truth, did not feel any fear of being "pinked" by a raider's bullet.

The Boy Scouts On The Range |Lieut. Howard Payson

Early in September we first heard of the famous German raider the Emden.

The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) |James Edward Parrott