A person who plunders or robs from ships, esp. at sea; a person who commits or practises piracy.
| 单词 | θ146799 |
| 释义 | the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > pirate > [noun] (9) pirate?a1425 A person who plunders or robs from ships, esp. at sea; a person who commits or practises piracy. water thief1600 Chiefly poetic. A pirate; (sometimes more generally) a person engaged in stealing, plunder, etc., who travels by water. buccaneer1846 By extension: A sea-rover who makes hostile incursions upon the coast, a ‘filibuster’. Subcategories:— collectively (1) — medieval Scandinavian (1) — in Spanish America (2) — privateer (2) |
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