Privateer

(noun.) a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation.

(noun.) an officer or crew member of a privateer.

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• They say the Jeune Amelie was his, which was taken by the Yankee privateer Molasses. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• No less than seven hundred privateers were, it is said, commissioned in the last war! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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