BUCCANEER

n. v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.]

2.
v.

To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.


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