privateer
[prahy-vuh-teer]
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noun
an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
verb (used without object)
to cruise as a privateer.
Origin of privateer
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Historical Examples of privateering
The gallantry of privateering was degenerating into the bloody brutality of piracy.
Plotting in Pirate SeasFrancis Rolt-Wheeler
A specimen American privateering commission may be seen in doc.
These were the essential documents of a privateering voyage.
Most narratives of privateering or of piracy are found in the form of depositions.
Seamen—you witness—were brutes, in these merry days of privateering.
Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the SeaCharles H. L. Johnston
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