Obs. [f. FREE a. + BOOT sb.1; after FREEBOOTER.] Plunder, robbery.

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1647.  R. Stapylton, Juvenal, 156. He pillaged the Cilicians, that lived themselves upon free-boot.

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1654.  Vilvain, Epit. Ess., VI. lxxviii. The Swed free boot: Dane Dice and Drink approved.

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