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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Viking

/vīk'-ĭng/ · Vi·king · IPA /ˈvaɪkɪŋ/
01 n. One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
  1. 1.
    One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
    “Of grim Vikings, and the rapture Of the sea fight, and the capture, And the life of slavery.” Longfellow.