Usage examples (35)

• The privateersman was a gentleman adventurer, a protected pirate, a social highwayman of the waters.
• A pirate, indeed, in those days, was synonymous with the individual who was termed a privateersman at the time of the Napoleonic wars.
• Hazard, who had commanded a privateersman during the Revolution, purchased the place from "Citizen" Edmond Charles Genet, the first
• On the very day of these achievements he despatched Theopompus, a Milesian privateersman, to Lacedaemon to report what had taken place.