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| (...) Right, and "to smoke-dry" or "to cure" is "boucaner". So one could call the Caribbean pirates from Hispanola the "Jerkys". :-) By the way, anyone interested in a good historical pirate book (other than _A General History of the Pyrates_, which (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) (sanctioned (...) seen (...) just (...) dhow, (...) to be (...) corsairs of (...) from (...) Arrrrrrr, Chance-Vought Corsairs tain't pyrates, ye lubberly comedian. Though now that I think about it, that was primarily a Marine fighter, wasn't (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) The ship type "corsair" is derived from the type of boat--a semi-militarised dhow, if I'm not mistaken--that the pyrate sort of Corsair would use. Later it was extended to other ship types used by such raiders. IIRC it's a motile (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Don't bother to look - you are correct on all accounts. "Corsair" is most often related to the Barbary pirates, but it also meant a privateer (sanctioned piracy - but again, usually associated with north african pirates). I've seen the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Corsairs were the pirates of the Mediterranean - specifically of the Barbary coast (what is now modern-day Libya). Buccaneers were a group of pirates that originated on Hispanola - but the term later became used in a general sense for (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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