pyrate

English

Noun

pyrate (plural pyrates)

  1. Obsolete spelling of pirate.
    • 19th century, Jean Ingelow - The Brides of Enderby
      And storms be none, and pyrates flee,
      Why ring 'The Brides of Enderby'?"
    • 1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 379:
      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'.

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