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pirate
A sea-robber; any robber; particularly a book-seller who seizes the copies of other men.--Johnson. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
A sea-robber, yet the word pirata has been formerly taken for a sea-captain. Also, an armed ship that roams the seas without any legal commission, and seizes or plunders every vessel she meets; their colours are said to be a black field with a skull, a battle-axe, and an hour-glass. (See prahu.)
A sea-robber; any robber; particularly a book-seller who seizes the copies of other men.--Johnson. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.