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Pirate   /pˈaɪrət/   Listen
Pirate

noun
1.
Someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own.  Synonyms: literary pirate, plagiariser, plagiarist, plagiarizer.
2.
Someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation.  Synonyms: buccaneer, sea robber, sea rover.
3.
A ship that is manned by pirates.  Synonym: pirate ship.
verb
(past & past part. pirated; pres. part. pirating)
1.
Copy illegally; of published material.
2.
Take arbitrarily or by force.  Synonyms: commandeer, highjack, hijack.



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"Pirate" Quotes from Famous Books



... 80 and 81 there came to these islands some pirate ships from Japan, which is located about four hundred leagues from here. They did some injury to the natives. This year, as warning was received that ten ships were being prepared to come to these islands, I have sent a fleet to the place where they are accustomed ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume V., 1582-1583 • Various

... book of this gifted author which is best remembered, and which will be read with pleasure for many years to come, is "Captain Brand," who, as the author states on his title page, was a "pirate of eminence in the West Indies." As a sea story pure and simple, "Captain Brand" has never been excelled, and as a story of piratical life, told without the usual embellishments of blood and thunder, it has ...
— Capitola's Peril - A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand' • Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth

... stood there, silent, with his grave, utterly mournful face, he had robbed a bank, he had forged a note, he had committed a murder, he was guilty of treason. All the horror of conscience, all the shame of discovery, all the unavailing regret of a detected, atrocious, but not utterly hardened pirate tore his poor little innocent heart. Yet children are ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 63, January, 1863 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... night in the rain, The rose that fell at her window-pane, The frost that blackened the purple plain, And the scorn of pitiless disdain At the hands of the wolfish pirate main, Quelling her great hot heart in vain, Were all she ...
— More Songs From Vagabondia • Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey

... is not much difference between a pirate and a smuggler. They are both outlaws, and not very ...
— Devon Boys - A Tale of the North Shore • George Manville Fenn


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