Definitions for buccaneer
ˌbʌk əˈnɪərbuc·ca·neer

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pirate, buccaneer, sea robber, sea roververb

   someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

2. buccaneerverb

   live like a buccaneer

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. buccaneernoun

   Any of a group of seamen who cruised on their own account on the Spanish Main and in the Pacific in the 17th century; similar to pirates but did not prey on ships of their own nation.

2. buccaneernoun

   A pirate.

3. buccaneerverb

   To engage in piracy against any but one's own nation's ships.

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1. Buccaneer

   Buccaneers were a kind of privateers or free sailors particular to the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries. First established on northern Hispaniola as early as 1625, their heyday was from the Restoration in 1660 until about 1688, during a time when governments were not strong enough and did not consistently attempt to suppress them.Originally the name applied to the landless hunters of wild boars and cattle in the largely uninhabited areas of Tortuga and Hispaniola. The meat they caught was smoked over a slow fire in little huts the French called boucans to make viande boucanée – jerked meat or jerky – which they sold to the corsairs who preyed on the (largely Spanish) shipping and settlements of the Caribbean. Eventually the term was applied to the corsairs and (later) privateers themselves, also known as the Brethren of the Coast. Though corsairs, also known as filibusters or freebooters, were largely lawless, privateers were nominally licensed by the authorities – first the French, later the English and Dutch – to prey on the Spanish, until their depredations became so severe they were suppressed.

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1. buccaneer

   A buccaneer is a pirate, specifically one of the freebooters who plundered Spanish shipping in the West Indies during the 17th century. The term is often used broadly to refer to any pirate or marauder.

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1. Buccaneernoun

   a robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries

2. Buccaneerverb

   to act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber

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1. Buccaneer

   The buccaneers were pirates who attacked Spanish shipping in the Caribbean Sea during the 17th century. The term buccaneer is now used generally as a synonym for pirate. Originally, buccaneer crews were larger, more apt to attack coastal cities, and more localized to the Caribbean than later pirate crews who sailed to the Indian Ocean on the Pirate Round in the late 17th century.

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1. Buccaneer

   Buccanier, buk-an-ēr′, n. one of the piratical adventurers in the West Indies during the 17th century, who plundered the Spaniards chiefly.—v.i. to act as a buccaneer.—n. Buccaneer′ing.—adj. Buccaneer′ish. [Fr. boucaner, to smoke meat—Carib. boucan, a wooden gridiron. The French settlers in the W.I. cooked their meat on a boucan in native fashion, and were hence called boucaniers.]

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1. Buccaneer

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Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. buccaneer

   A name given to certain piratical rovers, of various European nations, who formerly infested the coasts of Spanish America. They were originally inoffensive settlers in Hispaniola, but were inhumanly driven from their habitations by the jealous policy of the Spaniards; whence originated their implacable hatred to that nation. Also, a large musketoon, about 8 feet in length, so called from having been used by those marauders.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of buccaneer in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of buccaneer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=buccaneer
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Buccaneer
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buccaneer
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buccaneer
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=buccaneer
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=buccaneer
8. ^ CrunchBase
   https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/buccaneer
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=buccaneer