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Meanings of pirate in English
Person practicing piracy.
Related terms
Someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own.
Synonyms
Examples for "buccaneer"
Examples for "buccaneer"
1
Selkirk was a buccaneer on a ship cruising in the South Atlantic.
2
The old gray buccaneer exhorted them in no wise to be uneasy.
3
In June, 1663, this buccaneer sailed from Port Royal to the Orinoco.
4
I would not injure the vessel, even should it prove a buccaneer.
5
This pirate must not be confused with the buccaneer, Sir Henry Morgan.
1
The Anglo-Saxon is a pirate, a land robber and a sea robber.
2
He was no longer the wild sea robber, but a refined, courteous gentleman.
3
One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.
4
The sea robber laughed as he looked back and saw that there was nothing to mark the place of the hidden rock.
5
The ship belonged to a sea robber called Ralph the Rover; and she was a terror to all honest people both on sea and shore.
1
I had rather be as I am, an honest sea rover.
2
No sea rover ever had greater desire for women, or won them easier.
3
They would never be happy under the tyrannical rule of the bold sea rover.
4
These fair waters and yellow-rimmed, palm-nodding islands are the traditional home of the sea rover.
5
Then might we hope to make a bold stand against any sea rover out of Norway.
Usage of pirate in English
1
The group also celebrates holidays such as 'Talk like a pirate day'.
2
The schooner you saw is not the pirate; it is the Foam.
3
The enlistment of the seven in the pirate fleet was tacitly acknowledged.
4
Tell her she should run away to sea and become a pirate.
5
The trade body wants the pirate sites pushed down the search rankings.
6
It was hardly a pirate ship, a place for freedom and adventure.
7
The weak point in all pirate ships was the lack of discipline.
8
Otherwise, scouring the coasts for pirate lairs is left to local authorities.
9
There have been around 95 pirate attacks in Somali waters this year.
10
He was thief and pirate in her eyes; nothing more, nothing less.
11
It is from the second mentioned-thecapture of the pirate, as follows:
12
One level has ghosts; in another there's a pirate ship shooting cannonballs.
13
During Carnival children often go out dressed in pirate or princess costumes.
14
In 1830 commanded a squadron of small pirate vessels off the Azores.
15
A pirate negotiator said a tugboat brought the ransom to the brigands.
16
Deserted in 1689 and went to sea with the pirate Captain Pound.
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