单词 | buccaneering |
释义 | buccaneeringn. The occupation of a buccaneer; piracy. buccaneering piece (French fusil boucanier): a long musket used in hunting wild oxen (Littré). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooting equipment > [noun] > other sporting guns buccaneering piece1758 roer1824 rook rifle1846 Mannlicher1884 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > brigandage or freebooting > [noun] trailbaston1304 brigantaille1393 latrocinyc1430 brigancy1513 free-boot1598 freebootinga1599 brigandize1609 latronage1619 free-booty1649 moss-trooping1649 buccaneering1758 dacoiting1802 gang robbery1812 dacoity1813 free-bootery1813 brigandage1823 bush-ranging1832 mosstroopery1845 filibustering1856 klephtism1858 robberhood1863 brigandism1865 Vikingism1880 bushwhackerism1883 Vikingship1883 banditism1885 dacoitage1887 brigandry1909 banditry1922 1758 H. Walpole Corr. (1837) I. 383 Lord George Sackville refused to go a-buccaneering. 1761 Brit. Mag. 2 612 The said Looney took up a buccaneering piece..and shot the said Captain. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller (1849) 380 Wealth, which it was whispered he had acquired by buccaneering. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §8. 430 A new buccaneering expedition..under Drake. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2018). buccaneeringadj. That follows the occupation of a buccaneer. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > brigandage or freebooting > [adjective] buccaneering1701 freebooting1798 moss-trooping1805 buccaneerish1812 brigandine1832 filibustering1856 brigandish1877 brigandesque1883 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 15 Norwegian Pirates, Buccaneering Danes..with Norman-French, compound the Breed. 1806 M. L. Weems Life G. Washington (ed. 5) i. 5 With their buccaneering legions. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters i. 12. 1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) viii. 251 The rough manners of a sea-faring and buccaneering people. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1758adj.1701 |
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