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Monday 16 September 2013
Pirates
"Pirate s. [Gk, pirate, Fr.]
1. A sea robber.
2. Any robber, particularly a bookseller who seizes the copies of other men."
A Dictionary of the English Language Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
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