Someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation.
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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.
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.
6 The others, he conceived, were devils, for many a sea rover had sold himself to Satan.
8 Perhaps they had heard from some bold sea rover that we had come, but that we were not wholly gods!
9 The dead sea rover was seated at a rough oak table with his head resting on his hand as if in deep thought.
10 Sea rovers , bush lopers, these two could bid defiance to English raiders.
11 There were many famous sea rovers , but none more celebrated than Capt.
12 These old ancestors were hardy warriors and sea rovers , yet were capable of profound and noble emotions.
13 Now see here, Gates; thar's no reason why we should beat about the bush-factis we're sea rovers .
14 They are but incidents, not events, in the career of the brethren of the order of South Sea rovers .
15 The Spaniards, scarcely stopping to encounter the enemy, flung away their arms as they saw the dreaded sea rovers approaching.
16 Enraged by these defeats, King Philip II of Spain determined to invade England and destroy that nest of sea rovers .
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