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Definition of Buccaneer
1. Verb. Live like a buccaneer.
2. Noun. Someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation.
Specialized synonyms: Barbary Pirate, Corsair, Sea King
Generic synonyms: Despoiler, Freebooter, Looter, Pillager, Plunderer, Raider, Spoiler
Specialized synonyms: Jean Laffite, Jean Lafitte, Laffite, Lafitte, Henry Morgan, Morgan, Sir Henry Morgan, Bartholomew Roberts, Roberts, Blackbeard, Edward Teach, Edward Thatch, Teach, Thatch
Derivative terms: Piratical
Definition of Buccaneer
1. n. 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. v. i. To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
Definition of Buccaneer
1. Noun. (nautical) 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. ¹
2. Noun. A pirate. ¹
3. Verb. To engage in piracy against any but one's own nation's ships. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Buccaneer
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Buccaneer
1. 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. Alternative forms: bucanier. Primarily, one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner of the Indians. The name was first given to the French settlers in Hayti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine. Origin: F. Boucanier, fr. Boucaner to smoke or broil meat and fish, to hunt wild beasts for their skins, boucan a smoking place for meat or fish, gridiron for smoking: a word of American origin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buccaneer
Literary usage of Buccaneer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Edmund Kemper Broadus (1904)
"TREASURE ISLAND PART I THE OLD buccaneer CHAPTER I THE OLD SEA DOG AT THE "ADMIRAL
BENBOW" SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen ..."
2. A Sailor's Garland by John Masefield (1908)
"CHARLES KINGSLEY THE LAST buccaneer THE winds were yelling, the waves were
swelling, When the crew with eyes of flame brought the ship without a name The ..."
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