Buccaneer: alternatives and connections

A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.

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One of the leaders among the Norsemen who passed their lives in roving the seas in search of plunder and adventures; a Norse pirate chief. See the No…

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One who despoils.

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One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.

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To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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A plunderer.

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One who pillages.

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One who plunders or pillages.

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One who engages in a raid.

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One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.

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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 crui…

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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 crui…

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Of or pertaining to a pirate; acquired by, or practicing, piracy; as, a piratical undertaking.

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Of or pertaining to a pirate; acquired by, or practicing, piracy; as, a piratical undertaking.

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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 crui…

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A pirate; a sea rover.

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One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.

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