Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A highway robber.
- noun One of a class of men in seaports who live by cheating or robbing sailors.
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Examples
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John A. Murrell, long known as the great Western land-pirate; and surely no pirate of the seas was ever more enterprising or more dangerous.
The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Emerson Hough 1890
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Borrowing and repayment are no part of the manners of this land-pirate.
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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-- I saw this land-pirate Mahamed take a blackmail like a negro chief.
The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845
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A young man had been sleeping on the grass, and this land-pirate had absolutely succeeded in getting his shoes, his handkerchief, and his hat; but an attempt to _take off his cravat_ had awoke the sleeper.
Recollections of Europe James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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O'Donnell insists that we stop picturing Theoderic as a horse-riding land-pirate on the lookout,
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009
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O'Donnell insists that we stop picturing Theoderic as a horse-riding land-pirate on the lookout,
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009
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O'Donnell insists that we stop picturing Theoderic as a horse-riding land-pirate on the lookout,
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009
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