Both Uses of
plunder
in
Moby Dick
- Merchant ships are but extension bridges; armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plunder other ships, other fragments of the land like themselves, without seeking to draw their living from the bottomless deep itself.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- Once a vagabond on his own canal, I have received good turns from one of these Canallers; I thank him heartily; would fain be not ungrateful; but it is often one of the prime redeeming qualities of your man of violence, that at times he has as stiff an arm to back a poor stranger in a strait, as to plunder a wealthy one.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(plunder) to steal -- often after conquering the location with the goods
or:
the goods stolen