archpirate

See also: arch-pirate

English

Alternative forms

• arch-pirate

Etymology

arch- +‎ pirate

Noun

archpirate (plural archpirates)

1. A leader of pirates.
   • 1869, William Barnes, Early England and the Saxon-English:

     […] he says a man might deem there were as many archpirates as there were oars.

   • 1873, Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire:

     Not improbably those foreign aggressors, as they are naturally styled by the then owners — those archpirates, the host of Lochlinn — were invited to assist in resisting the Roman oppressors by natives who, sooner than submit, had retreated […]