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privateersman
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Privateersman \Pri`va*teers"man\ (pr[imac]`v[.a]*t[=e]rz"man), n.; pl. Privateersmen (pr[imac]`v[.a]*t[=e]rz"men). An officer or seaman of a privateer.
Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) The captain or member of the crew of a privateer
WordNet
n. an officer or crew member of a privateer [syn: privateer]
Usage examples of "privateersman".
Captain Jonathan Haraden, the most famous Salem privateersman of the Revolution, made the rigging for the mainmast in his loft.
He lived with one man servant in a Georgian homestead with knocker and iron-railed steps, balanced eerily on the steep ascent of North Court Street beside the ancient brick court and colony house where his grandfather - a cousin of that celebrated privateersman, Capt.
These wishes were not entirely new to the service: it was known that Lord Cochrane and Captain Aubrey and one or two other commanders had achieved surprising feats with these same hawsers: but the service as a whole was dead against them as innovations, ugly, untidy innovations, worthy of privateersmen or even, God forbid, of pirates.