Significados de british privateer en inglés

If she is a British privateer we may be saved yet.

Crews and passengers were flung ashore without food or clothing, were abused, insulted, or perhaps impressed in British privateers.

They sailed from Boston, and were out but a few days when they captured a British privateer of fourteen guns.

Elizabethan England had neither silver mines nor spice islands, but the deficiency was never felt while British privateers sailed the seas.

"And how came you, sir, to be chief officer on board a British privateer?" now demanded Renouf.

This cruise resulted in the capture by the Washington of several vessels, among them the Robust, Lord Sandwich, Barrington, and the Spitfire, a British privateer.

"That innocent-looking merchantman is a British privateer," quoth he; "and it's a shame to harbor her in the good port of Boston, amid French-loving people."