privateer
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Sir Francis Drake was an English privateer, sailing and seizing stuff on behalf of the queen.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025
At this year's race all 62 cars, including the many privateer entries, run on a sustainable fuel made from vineyard grape skin waste.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2023
His father, Jan Jansen, a Dutch privateer, was captured by one of the Moorish states in 1618.
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2019
The San Juan Bautista, a Spanish ship transporting enslaved Africans, was bound for Mexico when it was attacked by the White Lion and another privateer, the Treasurer, and forced to surrender its African prisoners.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2019
“The Cape’s not so bad. You’re safer there than lots of places. For instance—take the Mediterranean. There—you’d be running from a French privateer, and probably be hulled by a Barbary pirate.”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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