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pickeer |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pickeer \Pick*eer"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pickeered}; p. pr & vb n. {Pickeering}.] [F. picorer to go marauding, orig., to go to steal cattle, ultimately fr L. pecus, pecoris cattle; cf F. picor['e]e, Sp pecorea robbery committed by straggling soldiers.] To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also to skirmish in advance of an army. See {Picaroon}. [Obs.] --Bp. Burnet.
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