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Pirate Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Pirate?
[n] a ship manned by pirates
[n] someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation [n] someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own [v] take arbitrarily or by force; "The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami" [v] copy illegally; of published material Synonyms | Synonyms for Pirate: buccaneer | commandeer | highjack | hijack | literary pirate | pirate ship | plagiariser | plagiarist | plagiarizer | sea robber | sea rover Related Terms | Find terms related to Pirate: AB | able seaman | able-bodied seaman | adopt | air pirate | airplane hijacker | Ancient Mariner | appropriate | Argonaut | assume | Blackbeard | bluejacket | borrow | buccaneer | Captain Hook | Captain Kidd | copy | copyright infringer | corsair | crib | cribber | deep-sea man | derive from | Dylan | fair-weather sailor | filibuster | fisherman | Flying Dutchman | freeboot | freebooter | hearty | Henry Morgan | imitate | infringe | infringe a copyright | infringer | jack | jack afloat | jack-tar | jacky | Jean Lafitte | lift | limey | literary pirate | lobsterman | make use of | mariner | matelot | mock | navigator | Neptune | OD | picaroon | pinch | plagiarist | plagiarize | plagiarizer | poach | Poseidon | privateer | raider | reproduce | rover | sailor | salt | sea | sea dog | sea king | sea rover | seafarer | seafaring man | seaman | shipman | simulate | skyjacker | steal | take | take on | take over | tar | Varuna | viking | water dog | whaler | windjammer | windsailor See Also | Barbary pirate | Bartholomew Roberts | Blackbeard | carjack | corsair | corsair | despoiler | Edward Teach | Edward Thatch | freebooter | Henry Morgan | Jean Laffite | Jean Lafitte | Laffite | Lafitte | looter | Morgan | pillager | plunderer | raider | Roberts | sea king | seize | ship | Sir Henry Morgan | spoiler | steal | stealer | Teach | Thatch | thief Pirate In Webster's Dictionary \Pi"rate\, n. [L. pirata, Gr. ?, fr. ? to attempt,
undertake, from making attempts or attacks on ships, ? an
attempt, trial; akin to E. peril: cf. F. pirate. See
{Peril}.]
1. A robber on the high seas; one who by open violence takes
the property of another on the high seas; especially, one
who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or
plunder; a freebooter on the seas; also, one who steals in
a harbor.
2. An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal
commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on
the high seas.
3. One who infringes the law of copyright, or publishes the
work of an author without permission.
{Pirate perch} (Zo["o]l.), a fresh-water percoid fish of the
United States ({Aphredoderus Sayanus}). It is of a dark
olive color, speckled with blackish spots.
\Pi"rate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pirated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pirating}.] [Cf. F. pirater.] To play the pirate; to practice robbery on the high seas. \Pi"rate\, v. t. To publish, as books or writings, without the permission of the author. They advertised they would pirate his edition. --Pope. |
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