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Pirate's plunder
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booty
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot , pillage , plunder , prize , swag , dirty money ]
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Booty is a computer game released in 1984 for various home computers. The game was one of Firebird 's launch titles.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Booty \Boo"ty\, n. [Cf. Icel. b[=y]ti exchange, barter, Sw. byte barter, booty, Dan. bytte; akin to D. buit booty, G. beute, and fr. Icel. byta, Sw. byta, Dan. bytte, to distribute, exchange. The Scandinavian word was influenced in English by boot profit.] ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN war ▪ This is only the second time in post-war history that war booty art treasures have been put on view. ▪ They may consider that the exhibition of works from war booty collections should become an established practice. ...
Usage examples of booty.
Tarquin, thinking it advisable to pursue the enemy closely while in this consternation, after sending the booty and the prisoners to Rome, piling up and burning the spoils which he had vowed to Vulcan, proceeds to lead his army onward into the Sabine territory.
Larut, although aided by Captain Speedy and a force of well-drilled troops recruited by him in India, and possessing four Krupp guns, was powerless to restore order, and Larut was destroyed, being absolutely turned into a wilderness, in which all but three houses had been burned, and, while the Malays had fled, the surviving Si Kwans were living behind stockades, while those of the faction opposed to that with which the Mentri and his Commander-in-Chief, Captain Speedy, had allied themselves, were living on the products of orchards from which their owners had been driven, and on booty, won by a wholesale system of piracy and murder, practiced not only on the Perak waters but on the high seas.
Then their minds might turn to the quantity of booty de la Mery had accumulated and the way it was destined to be shared.
A few days later, George was buying some supplies at Iceman Feeds when a musher approached the counter and asked the clerk if he could have a little advice on booties.
Turning them right side out in advance of the race saves time for the musher, whose dogs will use eight hundred to twelve hundred booties in the course of a thousand-mile trail.
When a musher begins a rest cycle, he boils water, feeds his dogs, removes their booties, and checks each dog for injury or illness.
And so, upon a dark night near the head waters of the river he sought, he buried the treasure at the foot of a mighty buttress tree, and with his parang made certain cabalistic signs upon the bole whereby he might identify the spot when it was safe to return and disinter his booty.
And what damnable expressiveness Pickman sometimes gave the sightless faces of this charnel booty!
Constantine encountered a very obstinate resistance, he prevailed at length in the contest, and the Goths were compelled to purchase an ignominious retreat, by restoring the booty and prisoners which they had taken.
One strong company went to Cuba, where they sacked the Town of the Keys, and won a good booty.
Yet in secreting this booty, the saint incurred an excommunication, and perhaps broke his oath.
Napoleon, booty taken by the Slaughterman in one of his attacks on the French.
Since booties are made by a variety of outfitters and stitchers, many variations in design exist.
Bringing this booty back to Castle Tenebrose, he began once again his thwarted campaign to make himself the true Master of Tuzamen.
Augustine in 1683, and who had been a constant source of worriment to the Jamaicans because of his attacks on the fishing sloops, sailed to Boston and disposed of his booty of gold, silver, jewels and cocoa to the godly New England merchants, who were only too ready to take advantage of so profitable a trade and gladly fitted him out for another cruise.