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单词 picory
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picoryn.

Brit. /ˈpɪk(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈpɪkəri/
Forms: 1500s picorée, 1500s picorie, 1500s 1900s– picory, 1500s–1600s picoree; Scottish pre-1700 pycry.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French picorée.
Etymology: < Middle French, French picorée (1573; 1571 as pecorée ), use as noun of past participle of picorer (see pickeer v.). Compare early modern Dutch picorei (c1600), Spanish pecorea (1602).Perhaps influenced in form by pickery n. (compare forms at that entry).
Now archaic and rare.
Plunder or pillage by force; marauding, looting, piracy; an instance of this.In quot. 1921 alluding to quot. 1596.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > sacking, raiding, or looting > [noun]
harryingc900
harrowingc1000
skeckinga1387
pillagea1393
skickinga1400
forayingc1400
hership1487
direption1528
sackc1550
sacking1560
sackage1577
saccaging1585
picory1591
reprisalc1595
boot-haling1598
booty-haling1611
rapture?1611
ravage1611
prize-taking1633
plunder1643
booting1651
hen roost1762
ravagement1766
raiding1785
loot1839
looting1842
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Ded. 9 b In stead of pay haue suffered them to goe alla picoree, that was, to robbe and spoyle the Boores their friends.]
1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 13 If otherwise they be not prouided by forrage or Picoree.
1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course iv. f. 45 He chastised such as failed, or were giuen to picory.
a1595 T. Digges in T. Digges & D. Digges Foure Paradoxes (1604) i. 3 Abroad in the country at the Picoree.
1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) Ep. Ded. 4 It became not the former fortune in which I once liued, to goe iourneys of picorie.
1674 in Bk. Old Edinb. Club VI. 127 Severall pycries and roberies laitlie comitted..at sea..by plundering from them..great quentities of silver and gold.
1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 29/1 Smith alone, having saved, by care in picory, some moneys,..adventured to regain a more reputable way of living.
1921 J. Buchan Path of King viii. 163 For Walter Raleigh it would be black sin..to go journeys of picory.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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