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| A privateer is a pilot with a "letter of marque" (see below) from a governement. This letter "allows" the sailor to plunder any ship of a given enemy nation. Technically , a privateer was a self employed soldier paid only by what he plundered from an enemy. In this, a privateer was supposed to be above being tried for piracy. Tell that to Cap'n Kidd. Most often, privateers were a higher class of criminal, though many turned plain pirate before all was said and done.

| A pleasant term used by pirates to describe the act of turning pirate. The basic idea was that a pirate was more "free lancefreelance" and thus was, more or less, going into business for himself.

| A term given to one fond of planets as opposed to space. The terms term doesn't derive from "land lover" but rather from the root of "lubber" which means clumsy or uncoordinated. Thus, a landlubber is one who is awkward at in space for due to familiarity with the land. Of course, this terms was used to insult the abilities of one any pilot in space.

| Perhaps more famous in story than historically practiced, walking the plank was the act of being forced off a ship by pirates (as punishment or torture) into the watery grave below. History suggests that this might have happened once that can be vaguely documented, but it is etched in the image of the pirates for its clearly dastardly content.

| The Lead was a weight at the bottom of a line that gave pilots a way to measure depth when near land. To Swing the Lead was considered a simple job, and thusly thus came to represent one who is avoiding work or taking the easy work over the hard. In todays today's terms, one who swings the lead is a slacker.

| align=center | Keel HaulKeelhaul| Another term made famous by pirates. This is the act of throwing a man overboard, tied to a rope that goes beneath the ship, and then dragging him from one side to the other and hauling him out. Besides the torment of being dragged under water, this would drag the victim across the barnacle -studded ship's hull and cause great pain and injury. This was a serious punishment and not administered lightly.

| Tipping the black spot was a way pirates gave a death threat. As in the Novelnovel, Treasure Island, a paper was marked with a black smudge on one side and often a message on the other to make the threat specific.

| A document given to a pilot (privateer) giving him amnesty from piracy laws as long as the ships plundered were of an enemy nation. A large portion of the pirates began as privateers, with this symbol of legitimacy. Still, the earnings of a privateer were significantly better than any given a soldier at sea in any Navy.