0 a person or ship allowed by a government to attack and steal from ships at sea, especially in the 17th and 18th centuries
So you limit the question of a ship being a privateer or not to prohibition of the place where the pendant is hoisted.
They went out into the world as explorers, as merchant venturers, as privateers, as soldiers and sailors, and they built an empire.
Indeed, he is nailed to a very dubious privateer now.
Privateering was still permitted less than a century ago, and yet who would go back to privateering?
It is typical of the arguments that have been used by the privateers for many months.
There would be this advantage, that privateers would be almost certainly condemned.
They are not privateers in the old sense.
For the satisfaction of privateers, our coal miners, our pit people and their families, will have to suffer yet again.
