privateersman
noun
an officer or sailor of a privateer.
privateersmen
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pluralof privateersman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
The privateersmen were landed lower down the river, and at about seven in the evening Sir John was brought on board the Ruby.
From State Trials Vol. 2 (of 2) Political and Social by Various
