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PACKET or PACKET-BOAT to PARSLING
PARTING to PAYING-OFF
PAYING-OUT, or PAYING-AWAY to PILOT
PIN of a block to PLANKING
PLAT to POLE-MAST
Under bare POLES to PRAM or PRAME
PRATIC to PROP
PRATIC
PREVENTER
PRICKING the chart
PRICKING the sails
PRIMING
PRIMING-WIRE or PRIMING IRON
PRIVATEER
PRIZE
PRIZING
PROP
PROTEST to PURSER
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PRIVATEER
PRIVATEER, a vessel of war, armed and equipped by particular merchants, and furnished with a military commission by the admiralty, or the officers who superintend the marine department of a country, to cruise against the enemy, and take, sink, or burn their shipping, or dry, annoy them as opportunity offers. These vessels are generally governed on the same plan with his majesty's ships, although they are guilty of many scandalous depredations, which are very rarely practised by the latter.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 220, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0990.html