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Privateer (noun)

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Prívateer. n.s. [from private.] A ship fitted out by private men to plunder enemies.

He is at no charge for a fleet, further than providing privateers, wherewith his subjects carry on a pyratical war at their own expence. Swift's Miscellanies.

Sources: Swift, Jonathan (306)

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