pirate
noun
a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
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They knew well enough that the raftsmen were all down at the village laying in stores or having a spree, but still that was no excuse for their conducting this thing in an unpiratical way.
From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4. by Twain, Mark