freebooters in English
noun
1
a pirate or lawless adventurer.
Powerful merchant companies drove the process forward, and on the outermost fringe or cutting edge of empire, the aggressive initiative often came from a bizarre mixture of adventurers, freebooters , and pirates.
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1. Tribute formerly paid to freebooters along the scottish border for protection from pillage.
2. Cateran common people of the Highlands in a band; brigands, freebooters, or marauders collectively.
3. Buccaneer definition is - any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies; broadly : pirate