Crossword-Solution: PRIVATEER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Privateer | n. | An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque. |
| Privateer | n. | The commander of a privateer. |
| Privateer | v. i. | To cruise in a privateer. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRIVATEER (5)
How many tons of coal did she burn a day? Was she long enough to reach from the carriage house to the Indian camp? Were there any guns aboard, and if a privateer should attack her, could she hold her own? In case of a mutiny, could the captain shoot down anybody he chose, and wouldn't he be hanged when he got to shore? I had ignominiously to call upon Sandy to finish my speech.
Their good guns guarded their great gray sides that were thirty foot in the sheer, When there came a certain trading-brig with news of a privateer.
Then we was chased two days and a night by a French privateer, firing between squalls, and the dirty little English ten-gun brig which made him sheer off had the impudence to press another five of our men.
Whoever had the means of furnishing a ship, and could find a plucky captain to command her, sent her out as a privateer.
The privateer pointed her guns at the officer who carried this message, and muskets were levelled against his boats from the mole-head.
Quotes with PRIVATEER (1)
I'll get them out and come back. I promise.""On your word as a cutthroat and a pirate?" He touched my cheek once, briefly. "Privateer." Another explosion rocked the grounds." Let's go!" shouted Mal. As we sprinted into the tunnel, I glanced back and saw Nikolai silhouetted against the purple twilight. I wondered if I'd ever see him again.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NY Sun, NYT, Universal.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1944–2020).