Privateer is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRIVATEER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to operate as a pirate
• To cruise in a privateer.
• competitor, esp in motor racing, who is privately financed rather than sponsored by a manufacturer
NOUN:
• a licensed pirate
• an armed ship owned and crewed by private individuals holding a government commission and authorized for use in war, especially in the capture of merchant shipping
• a commander or crew member of a privateer, often regarded as a pirate
• an advocate or exponent of private enterprise
• a competitor who races as a private individual rather than as a member of a team
• privately owned armed vessel authorized by the government to take part in a war
• An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque.
• The commander of a privateer.
• an officer or crew member of a privateer
• a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an armed private ship licensed to attack enemy shipping; a sailor on such a ship

Words related to PRIVATEER

privateered17 privateering18 privateers15

Words that contain PRIVATEER

privateers15 privateered17 privateering18 privateerings19 privateersman20 privateersmen20

How to use PRIVATEER in a sentence

• The lugger is a celebrated French privateer, that we have six cruisers in chase of at this moment, our own ship included.
• They belonged to a Gibraltar privateer, which had just arrived at this port to take in refreshment.
• Moreover, they found on board the privateer a large store of gold, which becomes our prize of war.
• They were fitted out to take a Spanish privateer that has been cruising on the coast, and has taken several of our English vessels.
• In the following year another bold seaman, William Thompson, with but one man and a cabin-boy to help him, took a Cherbourg privateer and its crew of sixteen.
• The vessel, which was being fitted out as a privateer, was carrying dismounted guns under her deck, and may have foundered in the severe gale of January 1st, 1813.
• Whether friend or foe I could not tell until I saw the privateer change her course and at last head directly back towards the shore.
• We could no longer doubt that these were English ships, and we were alive with excitement when we saw two of them part from the others and go in chase of the privateer.
• He is the most successful privateer in all these waters.
• We shall never permit another privateer to cruise within it, and shall forbid our harbors to national cruisers.
• When, at the conclusion of hostilities, peace was declared, the crew of a privateer found it exceedingly irksome to give up the roving life, and were liable to drift into piracy.
• Born and bred in New York, he was a man of good education, and began his career on a privateer in the West Indies.
• Sent to England, but on the voyage was killed in a fight with a French privateer.
• This famous privateer, let us call him, was born at Kirkcudbright in Scotland in 1728, the son of Mr.
• Nevis in the West Indies, in command of a privateer of sixteen guns.
• The Huguenot privateer, which had been lying off the Cabezas, sailed eastward in his company, having abandoned Captain Tetu and his two shipmates to the mercies of the Spaniards.
• She loves devotedly the hero, the captain of the French privateer.
• Hamilton and Knox, being neither afraid nor un-American, were for putting a battery on Mud Island and sinking the privateer if she attempted to go by.
• The privateer had continued to near them, and was now within their range.
• After the firing had commenced, the approach of the privateer was in some degree checked.
• The Frenchman answered with a sneer and a smile, and was turning to obey the order, when a shot from the privateer cut him nearly in two.
• They had been sent there in an empty brig by a French privateer, who had captured many vessels, and had been embarrassed with the number of her prisoners.
• The Portuguese supposed that he was a privateer, and Davis going on shore was hospitably received, and they traded with him for such articles as they found most advantageous.
• Let the reader conceive our apprehensions, after all our toil and labor, of being seized by some Turkish privateer, such as are never off the seas.
• During the Revolution he tried to secure an interest in a privateer.
• Having reached Cape Race without meeting an enemy, he turned southward, until on the night of August 18th he spoke a privateer, which told him of a British frigate near at hand.
• He and his ship were taken by an American privateer.
• The voyage was notable on account of a very exciting incident on meeting with a foreign privateer.
• CHAPTER XXIX THE WRECK Meantime the French privateer sped onward to her doom.
• The damages sustained in this battle were scarce repaired when another British privateer appeared, and Talbot again went into action and took her, though of scarce half her size.
• Indeed, such had been her audacity, and so many her successes, that the British were eager for her capture or destruction, above that of any other privateer.
• A man in this pass would slaughter his parent, just as a privateer will load his guns with silver pieces taken out of the booty sooner than perish.

Similar words containing PRIVATE without suffix er

private12 privater13 privates13 privately17 privatest14 privateers15 privateered17 privateness16 semiprivate18 privateering18 privateerings19 privateersman20 privateersmen20 privatenesses18

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