Word Meanings - BOOTHALE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To forage for booty; to plunder. Beau. & Fl.

Related words: (words related to BOOTHALE)

• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• FORAGE
  fuerre, fodder, straw, F. feurre, fr. LL. foderum, fodrum, of German or Scand, origin; cf. OHG. fuotar, G. futter. See Fodder food, and 1. The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc. He from forage will incline to play. Shak. One way a band
• BOOTY
  That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton. To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order
• FORAGER
  One who forages.
• PLUNDERAGE
  The embezzlement of goods on shipboard. Wharton.
• PLUNDER
  Etym: 1. To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South. 2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy
• FREEBOOTY
  Freebootery.