资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Freebooting \Free"boot`ing\, n.
   Robbery; plunder; a pillaging.

Freebooting \Free"boot`ing\, a.
   Acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing.

         Your freebooting acquaintance.           --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.