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MUTINEER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mutineer" is a kind of...):
freedom fighter; insurgent; insurrectionist; rebel (a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions))
Derivation:
mutiny (open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers))
mutiny (engage in a mutiny against an authority)
Context examples:
The mutineers were bolder than we fancied or they put more trust in Israel's gunnery.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
But if it were inexplicable to me, the appearance of the chart was incredible to the surviving mutineers.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
If the mutineers succeeded in crossing the stockade, he argued, they would take possession of any unprotected loophole and shoot us down like rats in our own stronghold.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
We struck the enclosure about the middle of the south side, and almost at the same time, seven mutineers—Job Anderson, the boatswain, at their head—appeared in full cry at the southwestern corner.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Well,” he added after he had dosed them round and they had taken his prescriptions, with really laughable humility, more like charity schoolchildren than blood-guilty mutineers and pirates—“well, that's done for today.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Day after day this work went on; by every evening a fortune had been stowed aboard, but there was another fortune waiting for the morrow; and all this time we heard nothing of the three surviving mutineers.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Because, you see, since I am mutineers' doctor, or prison doctor as I prefer to call it, says Doctor Livesey in his pleasantest way, I make it a point of honour not to lose a man for King George (God bless him!) and the gallows.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I had quite made up my mind that the mutineers, after their repulse of the morning, had nothing nearer their hearts than to up anchor and away to sea; this, I thought, it would be a fine thing to prevent, and now that I had seen how they left their watchmen unprovided with a boat, I thought it might be done with little risk.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Out of the eight men who had fallen in the action, only three still breathed—that one of the pirates who had been shot at the loophole, Hunter, and Captain Smollett; and of these, the first two were as good as dead; the mutineer indeed died under the doctor's knife, and Hunter, do what we could, never recovered consciousness in this world.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It was long ere I could close an eye, and heaven knows I had matter enough for thought in the man whom I had slain that afternoon, in my own most perilous position, and above all, in the remarkable game that I saw Silver now engaged upon—keeping the mutineers together with one hand and grasping with the other after every means, possible and impossible, to make his peace and save his miserable life.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
