Filibuster
A piratical adventurer. The most notorious was William Walker,
who was shot in 1855. (French, flibustier, a corruption of our
“freebooter;” German, freibeuter; Spanish, filibustero;
Dutch, vrijbueter. (See Buccaneer.)
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