The word 'freebooter' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a person who engages in piracy or other illegal activities at sea. You can use it in any context where you want to refer to a person who operates outside of the law, particularly in relation to activities at sea. For example: - "The government launched a crackdown on freebooters who were terrorizing the shipping lanes." - "The notorious freebooter, Blackbeard, was feared by sailors throughout the Caribbean." - "Although he claimed to be a legitimate merchant, many suspected that he was secretly a freebooter, plundering ships for his own gain."
It drew its early membership largely from the Freikorps (Free Corps), armed freebooter groups, made up largely of ex-soldiers, that battled leftists in the streets in the early days of the Weimar Republic.
Rob was a freebooter with uncertain loyalty to James and was probably also engaged in cattle stealing and blackmail, old and at that time still honourable Highland practices.
To forestall them, Alfonso offered the spoils of the city to the freebooter Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, called El Cid.
September 19, 1560 Trimley St. Martin, England c. May 1592 Atlantic Ocean Thomas Cavendish, Cavendish also spelled Candish (baptized September 19, 1560, Trimley St. Martin, Suffolk, England died c. May 1592, in the North Atlantic) English navigator and freebooter, leader of the third circumnavigation of the Earth.
The French called their adventurers flibustiers (from the Dutch vrijbuiter, "freebooter"), and the Dutch called theirs zeerovers ("sea rovers"); the Spaniards called them corsarios ("corsairs").
Old nautical terms still in use include buoy, deck, dock, freebooter, hoist, leak, pump, skipper, and yacht.
It attracts freebooters and diamond smugglers, but not many reputable businesses.
Russian freebooters were the latecomers.Pulling China's tailYet high Moscow officials objected to Russia tweaking China's Amur tail.
On the outbreak of the War of the Grand Alliance in 1689, these freebooters became legitimate privateers in the service of their respective nations, and buccaneering came to an end.
The extreme exploitation of the enserfed peasantry bred discontent that led sporadically to uprisings by bands of rebels called haydamaks (Turkish: "freebooters" or "marauders").
During the next five years he traveled throughout northern Laos, winning for France the friendship of local rulers and chiefs and frustrating Siamese attempts to bring order to the region, which was beset by marauding bands of Chinese freebooters (Ho or Haw).
