[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That follows the occupation of a buccaneer.
1703. De Foe, True-born Eng., I. 186. Norwegian Pirates, Buccaneering Danes … with Norman-French compound the Breed.
1800. Weems, Washington, i. (1877), 8. With their buccaneering legions.
1854. H. Miller, Sch. & Schm., i. 11. He purchased a site for a house beside that of his buccaneering grandfather.
1868. Gladstone, Juv. Mundi, viii. (1870), 251. The rough manners of a sea-faring and buccaneering people.
