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  • noun Plural form of freebooter.

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Examples

  • Freebooters, freebooters, that is all Captain Gruzinov ever seems to talk about.

    BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995

  • Freebooters, freebooters, that is all Captain Gruzinov ever seems to talk about.

    BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995

  • Freebooters, freebooters, that is all Captain Gruzinov ever seems to talk about.

    BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995

  • Another source of recruits for the freebooters were the indentured servants or _engagés_.

    The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922

  • It may be asked, Why should these men be called freebooters if the founders of

    The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • It may be asked, why should these men be called freebooters if the founders of

    The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Ingilram's days -- ay, and I remember them as it were yesterday -- the freebooters were the best welcome men that came to Saint Mary's.

    The Monastery Walter Scott 1801

  • But within the town were only a small corps of burgher guards, and "freebooters" under the command of brave John Van der

    Jacqueline of the Carrier-Pigeons 1919

  • In Abbot Ingilram’s days — ay, and I remember them as it were yesterday — the freebooters were the best welcome men that came to Saint Mary’s.

    The Monastery 2008

  • On the other hand, there were no troops in the town, save a small corps of "freebooters," and five companies of the burgher guard.

    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 21: 1573-74 John Lothrop Motley 1845

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