fullarmed

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There were plenty of both merchants and seamen in New York who failed to draw any nice distinction between the two classes of vessels; and the fullarmed, strongly manned trading-ship, which alone was employed in the more perilous water-paths of commerce, and which was always ready to do privateering work in time of actual war, in time of peace was not unapt to hoist the black flag for the nonce in distant seas, or at least to barter freely with the acknowledged pirates.

VII. The Growth of the Colonial Seaport. 1691-1720. 1906