The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freebooting \Free"boot`ing\, n. Robbery; plunder; a pillaging.
Freebooting \Free"boot`ing\, a. Acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing.
Your freebooting acquaintance.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Wiktionary
Engaged in piracy or plunder n. piracy or plundering v
(present participle of freeboot English)
Usage examples of "freebooting".
By great good fortune he chanced upon an old freebooting captain, who once had been a meaner sort of condottiero, but who was sorely reduced by bad fortune and bad wine.
With the Concord starting to walk high and wide all over the Verge, with the great stardriver Lighthouse likely to turn up at any moment full of Concord Administrators with itchy gavels and Concord marines with itchy trigger fingers, and with heavy cruisers of who knew which stellar nation likely to pop in to see what they might extract from the local yokels, well, the time of freebooting was done.