单词 | free-booty |
释义 | free-bootyn. Now rare. 1. Plunder or spoil (to be) taken by or with the threat of force. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > spoil or plunder > taken in war or raid here-fengc1275 preya1325 wainc1330 spoila1340 ravinc1350 spoila1382 pillagea1393 forayc1425 booty1474 trophya1522 prize1522 sackage1609 boot-haling1622 free-booty1623 plunder1647 capture1706 loot1839 sack1859 1623 Bp. J. Hall Best Bargaine 7 If any vsurping spirit of error shall haue made a free-bootie of Truth. 1684 T. Otway Atheist v. 55 Wit, Courage, Martial Discipline, Interest at Court, Pretence to Preferment, Free Quarters in my Lodgings, and Free Booty in every Cuckold's Shop. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. i. 193 Whose Property is considered as Free-Booty by all his poor Neighbours. View more context for this quotation 1792 Let. Farmers & Manufacturers Great Brit. & Ireland 12 It is not freedom, but free quarter and free booty that they seek. 1830 Times 4 June 2/5 This would be making church property free booty indeed. 1922 Yale Law Jrnl. 31 306 The statutory provisions referred to were never meant to make the goods ‘free booty’ for the rest of the world. 1995 D. A. Hackett tr. Buchenwald Rep. ii. iii. 150 In the parcel post office, packages for prisoners were considered free booty for the SS robbers. 2. The taking of booty, plundering. Also: the practice of freebooters; piracy. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > brigandage or freebooting > [noun] trailbaston1304 brigantaille1393 latrocinyc1430 brigancy1513 free-boot1598 freebootinga1599 brigandize1609 latronage1619 free-booty1649 moss-trooping1649 buccaneering1758 dacoiting1802 gang robbery1812 dacoity1813 free-bootery1813 brigandage1823 bush-ranging1832 mosstroopery1845 filibustering1856 klephtism1858 robberhood1863 brigandism1865 Vikingism1880 bushwhackerism1883 Vikingship1883 banditism1885 dacoitage1887 brigandry1909 banditry1922 1649 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 26 To goe to sea as a man of war upon free bootie. 1683 E. Chamberlayne Present State Eng. xix. 87 The Piratical Trade is thus, 2 or more set out a Vessel of Prizage, or Free booty to Prey upon Merchants Ships. 1790 Times 17 Dec. 3/6 The following instance of disinterested free booty happened at Yarmouth last week. 1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Death Wallenstein ii. viii. 97 Tertsky here has given The mother's holiday wine up to free booty. 1896 Harper's Mag. Aug. 454/2 The exhilaration which this act of tether and freebooty caused the General was only tempered by his disappointment in that they [sc. the captives] were not at least a little roasted or bled. 1962 Geogr. Rev. 52 56 It attracted a large number of ‘war boys’, free-lance soldiers who found the free-booty life of the period much to their liking. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1623 |
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