单词 | picory |
释义 | picoryn. Now archaic and rare. Plunder or pillage by force; marauding, looting, piracy; an instance of this.In quot. 1921 alluding to quot. 1596. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1591 |
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