[f. SPOIL v.1] Despoiling, ravaging; doing damage.
1565. Shacklock, Hatchet of Heresyes, 87 b. A spoyling tyrant.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 741. It had beene a shameful misery to indure the tyranny of such spoiling beastes.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit. (1637), 199. The Danes in their spoyling rage burnt it to the ground.
1611. Cotgr., Spoliatrice, a spoyling, or despoyling woman.
