Talk:Scourers

Scourer Etymology
Probably choice of the word is that they go from cleaning you out (ie taking all your cash) to ethnic cleansing. They seem a bit like bounty hunters, a bit like extortion racketeers. Scourers also hint at the stereotypical wild west lawlessness commonly associated with the United States.

3.(obsolete) A rover or footpad; a prowling robber. In those days of highwaymen and scourers. — Macaulay. 

British English: scour If you scour something such as a place or a book, you make a thorough search of it to try to find what you are looking for. 

someone who travels widely and energetically

“he was a scourer of the seven seas”

2 archaic :   to clear (a region) of enemies or outlaws 3 :  to clean by purging :   purge

One who scours or roams the streets by night; a rover, robber, or footpad; specifically, one of a band of young scamps who, in the latter half of the seventeenth century, roamed the streets of London and committed various kinds of mischief. (Vaudree (talk) 10:51, March 10, 2016 (UTC))