Definition of "privateers" [privateers]

• Plural form of privateer. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of privateer. (verb)

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• "Then certain Southern privateers got lists of the New England whale-ships that were out, and lay in wait for them as whalers lie in wait for the leviathan."
• "The captains were called privateers, as were the ships."
• "The privateers were a resource in the interval ... they were really the armed force of the country. '"