buccaneer
Noun
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Someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation (synset 110455134)
is a type of: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler - someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)subtypes:
- barbary pirate, corsair - a pirate along the Barbary Coast
- sea king - a Viking pirate chief
specific instances:- jean laffite, jean lafitte, laffite, lafitte - French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826)
- henry morgan, morgan, sir henry morgan - a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688)
- bartholomew roberts, roberts - a Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722)
- blackbeard, edward teach, edward thatch, teach, thatch - an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)
Verb
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Live like a buccaneer (synset 202622065)
is a type of: live - lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
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