privateersman
Americannoun
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privateersmen
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of privateersman
An Americanism dating back to 1770–80; privateer + 's 1 + -man
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The privateersman finances his own ship and sells to other backers a share in all captured goods.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Maclay's book and Mary Barney's memoirs are alike accessible to any one, and for this reason it is necessary that the other side should be heard—Joshua Barney having been a very prominent American privateersman.
From Privateers and Privateering by E. P. Statham
He runs on his own hook—is a privateersman, in fact, on a small scale.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by Henry Christopher McCook
Upon Barney opening his coat and showing his British uniform, the privateersman, though more polite, was obviously suspicious.
From Privateers and Privateering by E. P. Statham
In spite of this order—he continued to reside in Italy, with the true independence of a privateersman.
From Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston
When a band of fortune hunters gathers in response to such a lure, these "brave fellows" are soon recruited into the growing forces of legalized buccaneers whom General Washington calls "our rascally privateersmen."
From Time Magazine Archive
Rascally they may be, but the privateersmen are providing the embargo-ridden American economy with badly needed supplies and giving employment to thousands of Americans thrown out of work by the British blockade.
From Time Magazine Archive
In nine years he borrowed over 700 books from the Salem Athenaeum, a library whose nucleus men like his father had captured, as privateersmen, from the English.
From Time Magazine Archive
Baltimore skippers, some of them privateersmen in the War of 1812, were trading in & out of Canton, Bombay, Lisbon, Valparaiso.
From Time Magazine Archive
Roused by this, the privateersmen rushed to their guns.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 by Various
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