[f. prec. sb.] a. = To BUCCAN. b. To act as a buccaneer: cf. BUCCANEERING vbl. sb.

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1795.  Wolcott (P. Pindar), Lousiad, II. Wks. 1812, I. 237. ’Twould be a serious matter, we can tell ye, Were we to bucaneer it on your belly.

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1828.  Southey, in Q. Rev., XXXVIII. 233. Warner would certainly … have been roasted, buccaneered, and eaten … if he had not escaped on board an English vessel.

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1853.  Blackw. Mag., LXXIII. 493. The Indians took the snake-flesh to dry (buccaneer) it.

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