"piratical" meaning in English

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          "text": "A nursery-maid is never afraid of what you people call work,\nSo I made up my mind to go as a kind of piratical maid-of-all-work;",
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          "ref": "2019 September 14, Miranda Sawyer, “Mark Leckey: ‘There has to be a belief that art has this power, this charisma'”, in The Guardian:",
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