† ˈfree-booty 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 war upon free bootie. |