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n. A ship privately owned and crewed but authorized by a government during wartime to attack and capture enemy vessels.

n. The commander or one of the crew of such a ship.

verb-intransitive. To sail as a privateer.

n. A privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo.

n. An officer or any other member of the crew of such a ship.

n. A private individual entrant into a race or competition who does not have the backing of a large, professional team.

v. To function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy.

n. An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under marque.

n. The commander of a privateer.

verb-intransitive. To cruise in a privateer.

n. An armed vessel owned and officered by private persons, but acting under a commission from the state usually called letters of marque.

n. The commander of, or a man serving on board of, a privateer.

To cruise in a privateer for the purpose of seizing an enemy's ships or annoying his commerce.

n. a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation

n. an officer or crew member of a privateer

"A Confederate privateer is reported sixty miles south-east of Sandy"

privateered    privateering    privateers   

war vessel    warship    combat ship   

works team    letter of marque   

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privateered    privateering   

gunboat    brig    men-of-war    coasting    buccaneer    man-of-war    frigate    corvette    merchantman    slaver