The standard operating procedures for buccaneers in the late 17th century; covered division of plunder, behaviour, punishment and compensation etc.

(law) An apprentice in law.

(historical) sugar, tobacco, cotton and indigo - the goods that the English colonies could export only to England in the 17th century

(grammar) In some languages, such as French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, a contraction of a preposition and an article, e.g. au in French (a contraction of à and le).

(obsolete) At the point of death.

(grammar) An article that indicates proper nouns. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see proper, article.

(grammar) The non-appearance of an article before a noun.

plural of articled clerk

plural of zero article

articles of association