/ · 1894 Brewer’s · F · Freebooter
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means a free rover. (Dutch, buiten, to rove, whence vrijbuiter; German, freibeuter, etc.)
His forces consisted mostly of base people and freebooters.”—Bacon.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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