mutineer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who takes part in a mutiny, especially a sailor or soldier rebelling collectively against commanding officers

   Samuel Comstock was remembered as a mutineer who seized his whaling ship.

2. 2
   verb

   rare: to take part in a mutiny or rebel against constituted authority

   The sailors threatened to mutineer if the captain continued to withhold their pay.

Borrowed in the early seventeenth century from French mutinier, to rebel, built on mutin, rebellious or mutinous. That French family is related to meute, an uprising or group in revolt, ultimately from Latin movere, to move.

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