privateersman

(ˌpraɪvəˈtɪəzmən)

n, pl -men

(Nautical Terms) another name for privateer²

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Noun

privateersman - an officer or crew member of a privateer

privateer

crew member, crewman - a member of a flight crew

ship's officer, officer - a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel; "he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines"

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References in periodicals archive

(397.) See STARKEY, supra note 42, at 18 (noting that an admiralty court "could proceed against the bail provided to guarantee the privateersman's good conduct, thereby adding significantly to the costs of promoting the unsuccessful venture"); see also id.

Patent privateers: private enforcement's historical survivors

Part of author and sea lover David Donachie's "Privateersman Mysteries" series, A Game of Bones follows seaman Harry Ludlow and his exhausted crew as their search for an easy prize lands them amid a desperate fight for survival.

A Game of Bones

Shepard catches this moment: against a background of a farm building and a tall "house high" haystack, the narrator and Edward are seen swinging themselves into a great farmyard wagon (then known as a "land ship") on which they will stage a mock battle between a privateersman and a British captain before the narrator, discovering the wagon to be swarming with earwigs, rolls off to leave Edward in sole command "execut[ing] a war-dance of triumph" and thus "honoured among wagons."

Green and dying in chains: Dylan Thomas's "Fern Hill" and Kenneth Grahame's 'The Golden Age.'

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