[f prec. + -ING1.] The occupation of a buccaneer; piracy. Buccaneering piece (F. fusil boucanier): a long musket used in hunting wild oxen (Littré).
1758. H. Walpole, Corr. (1837), I. 383. Lord George Sackville refused to go a-buccaneering.
1761. Brit. Mag., II. 612. The said Looney took up a buccaneering piece … and shot the said Captain.
1824. W. Irving, T. Trav. (1849), 380. Wealth, which it was whispered he had acquired by buccaneering.
1876. Green, Short Hist., vii. § 8 (1882), 430. A new buccaneering expedition … under Drake.
