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BUCCANEER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
Synonyms:
buccaneer; pirate; sea robber; sea rover
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("buccaneer" is a kind of...):
despoiler; freebooter; looter; pillager; plunderer; raider; spoiler (someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "buccaneer"):
Barbary pirate; corsair (a pirate along the Barbary Coast)
sea king (a Viking pirate chief)
Instance hyponyms:
Jean Laffite; Jean Lafitte; Laffite; Lafitte (French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826))
Henry Morgan; Morgan; Sir Henry Morgan (a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688))
Bartholomew Roberts; Roberts (a Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722))
Blackbeard; Edward Teach; Edward Thatch; Teach; Thatch (an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718))
Derivation:
buccaneer (live like a buccaneer)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Live like a buccaneer
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "buccaneer" is one way to...):
live (lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
buccaneer (someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation)
Context examples:
The terror of the dead buccaneer had fallen on their spirits.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Thus encouraged, the buccaneer stepped forth more briskly, and having passed something to Silver, from hand to hand, slipped yet more smartly back again to his companions.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I was bewildered; it seemed a thing so hopeless he was asking—he, the old buccaneer, the ringleader throughout.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Here's Cap'n Flint—I calls my parrot Cap'n Flint, after the famous buccaneer—here's Cap'n Flint predicting success to our v'yage.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
We made our best speed across the strip of wood that now divided us from the stockade, and at every step we took the voices of the buccaneers rang nearer.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Dog, sir,” said I. “Has Mr. Trelawney not told you of the buccaneers? He was one of them.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Well now, I tell you, I'm not a boasting man, and you seen yourself how easy I keep company, but when I was quartermaster, LAMBS wasn't the word for Flint's old buccaneers.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The buccaneers, with oaths and cries, began to leap, one after another, into the pit and to dig with their fingers, throwing the boards aside as they did so.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He was the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
There were six of the buccaneers, all told; not another man was left alive.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
