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Definition of freeboot in English English dictionary: {i} buccaneer, plunderer, freebooter; {f} steal, rob, pillage, plunder; act as a freebooter
freebooter: A pirate, or person who pillages and plunders
freebooter: {n} a robber, plunderer, pillager, pirate
freebooter: means a free rover (Dutch, buiten, to rove, whence vrijbuiter; German, freibeuter, etc ) "His forces consisted mostly of base people and freebooters " - Bacon Freeholds Estates which owe no duty or service to any lord but the sovereign (See Copyhold )
freebooter: "One who goes about in search of plunder; esp a pirate or piratical adventurer " (Oxford English dictionary at the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia)
freebooter: One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber
freebooter: someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
freebooter: someone who joins in a war in order to steal other people's goods and money (vrijbuiter, from vrij + buit )
freebooter: {i} pirate

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free·boot

[ 'frE-"bü-t&r ] (noun.) 1570. by folk etymology from Dutch vrijbuiter, from vrijbuit plunder, from vrij free + buit booty.

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