Definition of Priveteer

Definition of Priveteer

Privateer, a private vessel licensed by Government under a letter of marque to seize and plunder the ships of an enemy, otherwise an act of the kind is treated as piracy.

- Wikipedia

Pri`va*teer" (prī`v&adot;*tēr"), n. [From Private.] 1. An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque.

2. The commander of a privateer.

Kidd soon threw off the character of a privateer and became a pirate.

Macaulay.

Pri`va*teer", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Privateered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Privateering.] To cruise in a privateer.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

(nautical) A privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack and rob enemy shipping
An officer or crew of such a ship

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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