Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Buccaneer \Buc`ca*neer"\, v. i.
To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical
adventurer or sea robber.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Buccaneer \Buc`ca*neer"\, n. [F. boucanier, fr. boucaner to
smoke or broil meat and fish, to hunt wild beasts for their
skins, boucan a smoking place for meat or fish, gridiron for
smoking: a word of American origin.]
A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially
to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the
Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. [Written
also {bucanier}.]
[1913 Webster]
Note: Primarily, one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after
the manner of the Indians. The name was first given to
the French settlers in Haiti or Hispaniola, whose
business was to hunt wild cattle and swine.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
buccaneer
n 1: someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea
without having a commission from any sovereign nation [syn:
{pirate}, {buccaneer}, {sea robber}, {sea rover}]
v 1: live like a buccaneer
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