Obs. [f. FREE a. + BOOTY, after FREEBOOTER.]
1. Plunder or spoil (to be) taken by force.
1623. Bp. Hall, Serm., V. 152. If any usurping spirit of error shall have made a free-booty of truth.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, XII. i. Whose property is considered as free-booty by all his poor neighbours.
2. Taking of booty, plundering.
1649. Depos. Cast. York (Surtees), 26. To goe to sea as a man of warr upon free bootie.
