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Definitionn. an officer or crew member of a privateer
Last update: July 1, 2015
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The captain alerted the crew on seeing the privateer from distance. [Please select]
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He held Dover successfully through the darkest hour of John's fortunes; he brought back Kent to the allegiance of Henry III.; he completed the discomfiture of the French and their allies by the naval victory which he gained over Eustace the Monk, the noted privateer and admiral of Louis, in the Straits of Dover (Aug. [Please select]
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The vessel, said to be stout and well armed, was attacked on the voyage by a privateer, and a fierce engagement ensued. [Please select]
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The privateer waited till the ship was within a mile, then fired a gun to windward, and stood on her way. [Please select]
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"If the privateer should be British, or out of one of our American ports why should you fear her." [Please select]
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Moreover, they found on board the privateer a large store of gold, which becomes our prize of war. [Please select]
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He was certain that the brig was a French sloop or a privateer. [Please select]
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The privateer now came drawing down to where she lay lurching. [Please select]
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The white paving stones of the square gleamed, and in the centre, saturnine and defiant, stood uninjured the statue of Jean Bart, privateer and private of Dunkirk. [Please select]
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_ in chief command, at the age of twenty-five, with the tiny flotilla of the _Dragon_ and the _Swan_, manned by as good a lot of daredevil experts as any privateer could wish to see. [Please select]
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