·vi To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
II. Buccaneer ·noun 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.
A name given to certain piratical rovers, of various European nations, who formerly infested the coa...
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