pirating

Certain printers, however, made a practice of pirating some of the most popular English privileged books.

The good Major Bonnet has gone off pirating; he thinks he can make more money that way than by attending to his plantation.

With this small company he dared not go pirating on his own account and so had decided to rejoin Blackbeard.

Was America in the business of pirating around the shores of Europe to pick up islands, or promontories like Gibraltar?

He wished to go pirating again, and saw a way of doing this which he thought would be far superior to any of the common methods.