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  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Maroon  \Ma*roon"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Marooned};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Marooning}.]  [See  {Maroon}  a  fugitive  slave.] 
  To  put  (a  person)  ashore  on  a  desolate  island  or  coast  and 
  leave  him  to  his  fate. 
 
  {Marooning  party},  a  social  excursion  party  that  sojourns 
  several  days  on  the  shore  or  in  some  retired  place  a 
  prolonged  picnic.  [Southern  U.  S.]  --Bartlett. 




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