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▪ I. privaˈteering, vbl. n.
[f. prec. n. or vb. + -ing1.]
The occupation or practice of a privateer. Often attrib., as privateering trade, privateering practices.
1664[see privateer n. 1]. 1698C. Davenant Disc. II. 115 The Profits and Advantages they have gain'd..by Privateering. 1715Lond. Gaz. No. 5317/1 Commissions for Privateering are much demanded. 1850Grote Greece ii. lvi. VII. 140 To grant what we may call letters of marque, to any one, for privateering against Athenian commerce. 1863H. Cox Instit. iii. ii. 598 At the conference at Paris, in 1856,..it was declared that, as to those Powers..‘privateering is and remains abolished’.
b. esp. in phr. a-privateering: see a prep.
1701Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) V. 82 Several vessells are fitting out..to goe a privateering with his imperial majesties commission. 1760N. Jersey Archives XX. 505 They have both been a Privateering. 1851Carlyle Sterling i. x. (1872) 61 That they should..sail a-privateering ‘to the Eastern Archipelago’.
c. fig.
1668Dryden Evening's Love iv. iii, When our loves are veering, We'll make no words, but fall to privateering. 1673Marvell Reh. Transp. II. 30 It is a prædatory course of life, and indeed but a privateering upon reputation. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right x. I. 250 In all privateering on gold-fields..the initiated are aware that the alliance of capital with labour is indispensable. 1891T. Hardy Tess xxii, Mr. Clare..stepped out of line, and began privateering about for the weed.
▪ II. privaˈteering, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Following the occupation of a privateer.
1703C'tess of Winchilsea Pindar. Poem Hurricane 262 The Wealth..of diff'rent Shores..destroy'd by generous Fight, Or Privateering Foes. 1868Digby's Voy. Medit. Pref. (Camden) 31 The design was that of a general privateering voyage. |