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A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.

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  1. n. A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.
  2. n. A piratical vessel.
  3. n. a pirate along the Barbary Coast
  4. n. a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction)
  5. 1. A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land. 2. A piratical vessel. Barbary corsairs . . . infested the coast of the Mediterranean. Prescott.
  6. n:100 n. a pirate along the Barbary Coast n. a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction)