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Meaning of pyrate | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of pirate.

alt-of, obsolete

Equivalents

Français Pyrate pyrate

Examples

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

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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