Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who takes part in a mutiny.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To mutiny; play a mutinous part.
  • noun One guilty of mutiny; especially, a person in military or naval service (either in a man-of-war or in a merchant vessel) who openly resists the authority of his officers, or attempts to subvert their authority or in any way to overthrow due subordination and discipline.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One guilty of mutiny.

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  • noun someone who participates in mutiny

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Obsolete French mutinier, from Old French mutin, rebellious; see mutiny.]

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From mutiny +‎ -eer

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Examples

  • The mutineer was the bowsman of the mate, and when fast to

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • The president of the mutineers -- fancy calling a mutineer a president!

    As We Sweep Through The Deep Gordon Stables 1875

  • The mutineer was the bowsman of the mate, and when fast to a fish, it was his duty to sit next him, while Radney stood up with his lance in the prow, and haul in or slacken the line, at the word of command.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • The mutineer was the bowsman of the mate, and when fast to a fish, it was his duty to sit next him, while

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • The mutineer was the bowsman of the mate, and when fast to a fish, it was his duty to sit next him, while Radney stood up with his lance in the prow, and haul in or slacken the line, at the word of command.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • The very scrupulosity which made Nottingham a mutineer was a security that he would never be a traitor, [610]

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • Many of those present had seen him throughout that day of blood, at the head of his decimated squadron, with the guidon held aloft above every foe; to them that tall, slender form standing there, with a calm, weary dignity, that had nothing of the passion of the mutinous or the consciousness of the criminal in its serene repose, had shed upon it the luster of a heroism that made them ready almost to weep like women that the death of a mutineer should be the sole answer given by France to the savior of her honor.

    Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • Yet curiously enough, the same firm voice, and the same firm manner, and a "mutineer," though this time a man instead of a horse, was effective here.

    The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Paul Leicester Ford 1883

  • I disarmed them immediately, and the vakeel having written a discharge for the fifteen men present, I wrote upon each paper the word "mutineer" above my signature.

    In the Heart of Africa Samuel White Baker 1857

  • The discharge was made out, when upon each paper Mr Baker wrote the word "mutineer" above his signature.

    Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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  • I'm famous for refusing to obey seamen!

    June 1, 2008