tory

‘a person living as an outlaw after being dispossessed by English settlers, and surviving by acts of robbery and plunder against the English’

Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:

    E. torey, torie, torrie, torry < Ir. toruighe ‘plunderer’ < O.Ir. toirighim ‘I pursue’ < toir ‘pursuit’ < Ce. to-wo-ret- ‘a running up to’ < tawr < ret- < Tamil uruḷ

English words derived from Tamil uruḷ connoting ‘roll’