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privateersman
Variant of privateer
noun
- a privately owned and manned armed ship commissioned by a government in a war to attack and capture enemy ships, esp. merchant ships
- a commander or crew member of a privateeralso ☆ privateersman
intransitive verb
to sail as a privateer
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