单词 | buccaneer |
释义 | buccaneern.ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > smoking > one who smokes smoker1599 buccaneer1661 1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 43 Not able..to root out a few Buckaneers or Hunting French-men. 1710 J. Taylor Jrnl. 11 There were a great many French Buchaneers there. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The antient inhabitants of Hispaniola, and the other Caribu islands..consisted of four ranks or orders..viz. buccaneers, or bull hunters, who scoured the woods. 1761 Ann. Reg., Charac. III. 2/2 The Buccaneers lived..on some spots of cleared ground just large enough to..contain their buccaning houses. 2. (From the habits which these subsequently assumed:) ‘A name given to piratical rovers who formerly infested the Spanish coasts in America’ (Falconer Dict. Marine 1789). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > pirate > [noun] > in Spanish America buccaneer1693 filibuster1792 society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > pirate > in West Indies buccaneer1693 filibuster1792 1693 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 96 To pardon all the buccaneers that will assist in taking Martineco. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Buckaneers, West-Indian Pirates..also the Rude Rabble in Jamaica. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 213 Having been an old Planter at Maryland, and a Buckaneer into the Bargain. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. i. 120 The usual haunt of the buccaneers and privateers. 1767 T. Hutchinson Hist. Province Massachusets-Bay, 1691–1750 i. 86 Bucaniers or pirates..were very numerous. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby Notes p. ix Those West Indian adventurers, who, during the course of the seventeenth century, were popularly known by the name of Buccaneers. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. 279 A buccaneer or pirate in the Spanish Main. 3. By extension: A sea-rover who makes hostile incursions upon the coast, a ‘filibuster’. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > pirate > [noun] pirate?a1425 water thief1600 buccaneer1846 society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > pirate rovera1393 pirate?a1425 reaver1434 freebooter1570 filibuster1591 water thief1600 picaroon1624 marooner1661 Likedeelers1764 buccaneer1846 1846 T. Arnold Hist. Rome II. xl. 564 To protect the Mamertine buccaneers. 1877 W. E. Gladstone in 19th Cent. Aug. 157 Some of the less temperate of our adventurers (I must not call them buccaneers). 1883 R. Gower in Glasgow Weekly Herald 15 June 1/4 The poetic vein..was strong in that glorious old buccaneer [Garibaldi]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). buccaneerv. 1. To cook or smoke meat upon a fire; = buccan v. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)] > roast > barbecue barbecuea1689 buccan1827 buccaneer1828 1828 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 38 233 Warner would certainly.. have been roasted, buccaneered, and eaten..if he had not escaped on board an English vessel. 1853 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 73 493 The Indians took the snake-flesh to dry (buccaneer) it. 2. To act as one who buccaneers. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > brigandage or freebooting > be or act like brigand or freebooter [verb (intransitive)] freeboot1592 Tory1651 freebooter1659 buccaneer1787 filibuster1853 to turn out1862 1787 ‘P. Pindar’ Lousiad: Canto II 40 in Lousiad: Canto I (ed. 4) 'Twould be a serious matter, we can tell ye, Were we to bucaneer it on your belly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1661v.1787 |
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