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Freebooting

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free·boot  (frbt)
intr.v. free·boot·ed, free·boot·ing, free·boots
To act as a freebooter; plunder.

[Back-formation from freebooter.]


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Hunt and his companions were more and more sensible how much it would be in the power of this sullen and daring vagabond Rose, to do them mischief, when they should become entangled in the defiles of the mountains, with the passes of which they were wholly unacquainted, and which were infested by his freebooting friends, the Crows.
So large a cavalcade could not pass through the Crow country without attracting the attention of its freebooting hordes.
Waves of sinuous shadow went over the ripe hayfields, and plundering bees sang a freebooting lilt in wayside gardens.
 
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