Brewer's: Freebooter

means a free rover. (Dutch, buiten, to rove, whence vrijbuiter; German, freibeuter, etc.)

“His forces consisted mostly of base people and freebooters.” —Bacon.

Freeholds Estates which owe no duty or service to any lord but the sovereign.(See Copyhold.)

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