n
(obsolete) foraging for booty; plundering
adj
Illegally produced, transported or sold; pirated.
n
(military, historical) A form of naval warfare that primarily targets enemy merchant ships on the open sea.
n
(navy slang) The practice of pilfering or bartering for surplus items.
n
An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
n
(dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
n
An adventurer who pillages, plunders or wages ad-hoc war on other nations.
n
The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter.
v
(informal, derogatory, of airport security staff) To screen (someone) aggressively prior to allowing them to board an aircraft.
n
(obsolete) A harbormaster.
v
(transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
n
(slang) A van-dragger; a thief who takes part in van-dragging.
v
(intransitive) To go on a junket; to travel.
n
(military jargon, derogatory) Synonym of purser.
n
Rare spelling of filibuster. [A mercenary soldier; a freebooter; specifically, a mercenary who travelled illegally in an organized group from the United States to a country in Central America or the Spanish West Indies in the mid-19th century seeking economic and political benefits through armed force.]
n
A similar violation of international law, such as hijacking of an aircraft.
v
(transitive) To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.
n
One who pirates (produces unauthorized copies).
n
(military, nautical) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
n
(US) A transient, homeless person who rides from place to place on freight trains; a hobo
n
A pirate miner, a miner who digs out ore or paydirt clandestinely and runs
n
Alternative form of reaver [One who reaves, a border raider or cattle thief]
n
(now historical or archaic) A mounted robber; a bandit, especially in the Scottish borders.
n
Someone who exhibits road rage.
n
(historical) A French brigand of the 14th century.
n
One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.
n
(informal) A team of customs officers who search a ship, aircraft, etc. and its crew for contraband.
n
A person who specializes in destroying the wills of unruly slaves, especially in the context of the antebellum American South.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
v
(nautical, slang) To steal some liquor from a cask that is in storage or transit.
n
The commercial activity of a tramp steamer
n
(chiefly New Zealand) A recreational hiker.
n
The taking of valuables from a shipwreck close to the shore.
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