Privateers is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRIVATEERS in dictionary:

VERB:
• PRIVATEER, to operate as a pirate
NOUN:
• 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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an armed private ship licensed to attack enemy shipping; a sailor on such a ship

Words related to PRIVATEERS

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Words that contain PRIVATEERS

privateersman20 privateersmen20

How to use PRIVATEERS in a sentence

• Privateers, sent out by him upon the sea, secured valuable supplies.
• This they can only effect by means of their privateers, whose vessels, being light and active, may be easily fitted out, nimbly seize their prey, and speedily retire.
• In that day, French ships of war did not understand this important secret, much less French privateers.
• They saw several of the privateers in port, armed powerfully, and as they were usually built for speed, Robert admired their graceful lines.
• There were plenty of American pirates and privateers in earlier days, but I have found no record of any earlier actual expedition whose purpose was the creation of a new republic.
• LIVERPOOL fitted out privateers last war, equal in tonnage and men to the Spanish Armada, 8.
• Admission for her prizes and privateers into our ports.
• While these centres of trade and population were being formed in the very heart of the Spanish seas, the privateers were not altogether idle.
• All the leaders in the expedition were notorious privateers, men who had repeatedly been concerned in piratical outrages against the Dutch and Spaniards.
• Maloes, which had been a nest of privateers that infested the English commerce.
• Many English merchants began to equip privateers, and arm their trading vessels to protect their own commerce, as well as to distress that of the enemy.
• Notwithstanding the numerous navy which the nation maintained, the Spanish privateers made prize of the British merchant ships with impunity.
• In the meantime, the privateers fitted out by private merchants and societies, greatly annoyed the French commerce.
• On the other hand, the English cruisers and privateers acquitted themselves with equal vigilance and valour.
• About the same time, fourteen ships of the outward-bound Quebec fleet were captured by some American privateers off the banks of Newfoundland.
• In 1677 several English privateers surprised and sacked the town of Santa Marta in the Spanish Main.
• The captain appealed to the Assembly to have the benefit of the Act of Privateers, and the House of Assembly twice sent a committee to the Governor to beg a reprieve.
• Most of these men were buccaneers or privateers, who made a living in this way when out of a job afloat.
• In 1776, in the first year of the Revolutionary War, American privateers, most of them manned by our fishermen, captured three hundred and forty- two British vessels.
• During the whole of the voyage the utmost precaution was used to prevent an attack or capture by privateers, or national vessels of the enemy.
• If she seemed a reasonable prey, without too many guns, and not too high charged, or high built, the privateers would load their muskets, and row down to engage her.
• Several of the expeditions of the privateers of the eighteenth century sailed from Ireland.
• Another trial was brought about by his securing and sending out privateers which did good service.
• At Grand Jerre, the privateers publicly made sale by auction, of the cargoes of their prizes.
• This gave the Spanish colonies a welcome respite from the ravages of privateers till 1621, the first year of the reign of King Philip IV, when hostilities immediately recommenced.
• The privateers built expressly for fighting were the only ships that could approach the men-of-war.
• I do not apprehend serious danger from these privateers.
• For this compulsory servitude he exacted full compensation in later years by building and commanding divers privateers to prey upon the commerce of England.
• It as a time of constant wars and the seas swarmed with French privateers alert for fat prizes.
• Many of the vessels that had been built for privateers were in the trade, ready to fight a cruiser or rob a smaller slaver, as chance offered.
• The privateers actually had more prisoners than they had men of their own.
• There was a Berwick lad who went out on one of the privateers that sailed from Portsmouth in the Revolution.

Similar words containing PRIVATEER without suffix s

privateer14 privateered17 privateering18 privateerings19 privateersman20 privateersmen20

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