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someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

a ship manned by pirates

someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

a ship manned by pirates

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.

One who infringes the law of copyright, or publishes the work of an author without permission.

To play the pirate; to practice robbery on the high seas.

To publish, as books or writings, without the permission of the author.

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.

One who infringes the law of copyright, or publishes the work of an author without permission.

To play the pirate; to practice robbery on the high seas.

To publish, as books or writings, without the permission of the author.

A robber on the high seas; one who uses another's literary work without permission and claims it as his own product.

To rob at sea; to take and publish without permission or payment.

Piratic, piratical.

Piratically.

Piratically.

One who attempts to capture ships at sea: a sea-robber: one who steals or infringes a copyright.

To take without permission, as books or writings.

Piratically.

To subject to or practise piracy.

A robber on the high seas; a vessel engaged in piracy.

One who appropriates without right the literary work of another.

A sea-robber; literary thief.

To publish without permission.

A robber on the high seas; one who infringes the law of copyright.

To take by theft or without permission.

To rob on the high seas.

One who lives by robbing ships at sea; an armed ship employed by pirates; one who republishes the literary or artistic productions of another without leave.

To take without right or permission, as the contents of books for republication; to counterfeit; to rob ships on the sea.

n. [Latin, Greek] A robber on the high seas; a freebooter;—an armed vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering on the high seas;—one who publishes the writings of other men without permission.