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Word Meanings - FREEBOOTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber. Bacon. (more info) vrij free + buit booty, akin to E. booty. See Free, and Booty, and

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  • PLUNDERER
    One who plunders or pillages.
  • FREEBOOTER
    One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber. Bacon. (more info) vrij free + buit booty, akin to E. booty. See Free, and Booty, and
  • BUCCANEERISH
    Like a buccaneer; piratical.
  • BUCCANEER
    A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. Note: Primarily, one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner
  • BRIGANDAGE
    Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.
  • THIEF
    thiaf, OS. theof, thiof, D. dief, G. dieb, OHG. diob, Icel. , Sw. tjuf, Dan. tyv, Goth. , , and perhaps to Lith. tupeti to squat or 1. One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft. There came a privy thief, men clepeth
  • ROBBERY
    The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2. Note: Robbery, in a strict sense, differs from theft, as it is effected by force or intimidation, whereas theft is committed by stealth, or privately. Syn. -- Theft; depredation; spoliation; despoliation;
  • DEPREDATOR
    One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.
  • BRIGANDISH
    Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.
  • BRIGANDINE
    A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass. Milton.
  • ROVER
    A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball. Casual marks at uncertain distances. Encyc. Brit. A sort of arrow. All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt
  • FOOTPAD
    A highwayman or robber on foot.
  • BRIGANDISM
    Brigandage.
  • THIEFLY
    Like a thief; thievish; thievishly. Chaucer.
  • BRIGAND
    LL. brigans light-armed soldier fr. brigare to strive, contend, fr. briga quarrel; prob. of German origin, and akin 1. A light-armed, irregular foot soldier. 2. A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one
  • HIGHWAYMAN
    One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.
  • ROBBER
    One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear. Some roving robber calling to his fellows. Milton. Syn. -- Thief; depredator; despoiler; plunderer; pillager; rifler;
  • FREEBOOTERY
    The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting. Booth.
  • PIRATE
    1. A robber on the high seas; one who by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas; especially, one who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or plunder; a freebooter on the seas; also, one who steals in a harbor. 2. An
  • DEPREDATORY
    Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.
  • PROVERBIAL
    1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
  • CONTROVERSER
    A disputant.
  • CONTROVERSAL
    1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle.
  • SACROVERTEBRAL
    Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
  • RETROVERT
    To turn back.
  • UNCONTROVERSORY
    Not involving controversy. Bp. Hall.
  • IMPROVER
    One who, or that which, improves.
  • CONTROVERSOR
    A controverser.
  • BERING SEA CONTROVERSY
    A controversy between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of
  • PROVERB
    1. An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage. Chaucer. Bacon. 2. A striking
  • PROVERBIALIST
    One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.
  • CONTROVERSARY
    Controversial. Bp. Hall.
  • CONTROVERTIBLE
    Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question. -- Con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.
  • CONTROVERSIAL
    Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity. Whole libraries of controversial books. Macaulay.

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