pyrate

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A form of pirate — A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.

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Meanings

nounpyrate (plural pyrates)

plural pyrates

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of pirate.

    19th century, Jean Ingelow - The Brides of Enderby And storms be none, and pyrates flee, Why ring 'The Brides of Enderby'?"

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    I was reminded of this by an entry in the Westleton Churchwarden's Account for 1731-2 which records the sum of one shilling and sixpence having been given to 'fifteen seamen in company, which had been taken by ye pyrates and very barbarously used'.

    1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 379

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

pyrate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pyrate

MLA

“pyrate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pyrate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pyrate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pyrate.

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