buccaneer : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: buccaneer	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for buccaneer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
buccaneer n someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation Synonym(s): pirate, buccaneer, sea robber, sea rover v live like a buccaneer
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Buccaneer \Buc`ca*neer"\, v. i. To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.] 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 Hayti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine.