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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Buccaneer \Buc`ca*neer"\, n. [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.] 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. [Written also bucanier.]
Note: 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 Haiti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine.
Buccaneer \Buc`ca*neer"\, v. i. To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from French boucanier "user of a boucan," a native grill for roasting meat, from Tupi mukem (rendered in Portuguese as moquem c.1587): "initial b and m are interchangeable in the Tupi language" [Klein]. For Haitian variant barbacoa, see barbecue. Originally used of French settlers working as hunters and woodsmen in the Spanish West Indies, a lawless and piratical set after they were driven from their trade by Spanish authorities in the 1690s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) 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 A pirate. vb. To engage in piracy against any but one's own nation's ships.
WordNet
n. someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation [syn: pirate, sea robber, sea rover]
v. live like a buccaneer
Wikipedia
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 Sea than later pirate crews who sailed to the Indian Ocean on the Pirate Round in the late 17th century.
The Buccaneer (aka Buccaneer 18) is a day sailer for pleasure sailing as well as racing; it is sailed throughout North America.
Designed in 1966 by Rod Macalpine-Downie and Dick Gibbs, the Buccaneer incorporates classic elements that have made this racing dinghy a consistent performer for more than 35 years.
Due to its hull design, the Buccaneer planes in 8-10 knots of wind. An integrated spinnaker launch tube, roller furling jib, and well-constructed sailplan, 7'3" cockpit with non-skid seats, deck and floor make it a good two-handed racing dinghy. Well balanced and easily handled, the Buccaneer continues to appeal to both seasoned competitors and new sailors.
Weighing 500 pounds, the Buccaneer requires a trailer and winch to be launched. A comfortable cockpit arrangement and simple rigging round out the Buccaneer's design, make it a good day sailer for the family.
Buccaneer is a type of pirate.
(The) Buccaneer(s) may also refer to:
Buccaneer is the stage name of Jamaican dancehall artist Andrew Bradford (born 1974). He first emerged in 1994 and has released three albums. He later went into production.
Buccaneer is a role-playing game published by Adversary Games in 1979.
The Buccaneer was a secondary mascot used by the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball club during their 1995 season. While the team's primary mascot, the Pirate Parrot, wore an elaborate costume with a prosthetic head and molded frame, the Buccaneer was simply a man in pirate's garb who led the crowd in organized cheers. After an audition involving 30 prospective mascots, 23-year-old Tim Beggy was chosen to portray the Buccaneer.
Beggy was arrested along with a woman in July 1995, while skinny dipping after hours in a closed public swimming pool. Beggy and the woman both reached a plea agreement, under which they each paid a $100 fine and court costs in exchange for more serious charges of "open lewdness" being dropped. Beggy's arrest attracted national attention, including jokes on The Tonight Show, and the Pirates subsequently discontinued the use of the character in the wake of the negative publicity.
Buccaneer was a board game published in Britain by Waddingtons between the 1930s and 1980s.
The game board depicted the sea, broken into squares. Around the edges were ports, some owned by players, others being "free ports". At the centre was Treasure Island, upon which was placed semi-realistic looking treasures: diamonds, rubies, pearls, gold bars, and rum barrels.
Each player had a ship which they would sail to Treasure Island and pick up a "Chance Card." These cards contained instructions, either bad ("You are blown to Cliff Creek") or good ("Take treasure up to 5 in total value"). The treasure would be placed inside the plastic ship, which could contain up to two treasures, and the player would sail back to home port to unload the treasure, or trade treasure and crew at the other ports.
Players could attack other players' ships during the game and capture their treasure or crew. The number of spaces a player could move and outcomes of battles were decided on the crew cards held in the hand of each player.
In all versions since "1958 version" (and perhaps earlier) the winner was the first to collect 20 points worth of treasure.
Treasure Type
Points Value
Diamond
5 points
Ruby
5 points
Gold
4 points
Pearls
3 points
Rum
2 points
Buccaneer is a short-lived television series, made by the BBC in 1979–80. Created by experienced television writer N. J. (Norman) Crisp, it was broadcast over 13 weeks in April–July 1980.
The series, dealing with a developing air freight business, starred Bryan Marshall, Mark Jones, Pamela Salem and Clifford Rose, and was produced by Gerard Glaister.
The aircraft that "starred" in the series was a Bristol Britannia of Redcoat Air Cargo, registration G-BRAC, which wore the markings of "Redair", the name of the fictional airline in the series.
One reason for there being only one series (13 episodes) of this drama was that the fact that Bristol Britannia G-BRAC was destroyed in a crash near Boston, Mass., on 16 February 1980, shortly after the completion of filming, but just before transmission of the series. Of the eight people on board, seven were killed, and only one survived, albeit seriously injured.
With the "starring aircraft" destroyed in a crash plans for a second series were abandoned. The series has not been repeated or released on video or DVD. It became overshadowed by ITV's better-remembered World War 2 drama " Airline" starring Roy Marsden which was first broadcast in 1982.
The first episode concerned getting out of the fictional country of Ximbali, this just presaged real-life events when people fled from the former Rhodesia which had been renamed to the similar-sounding Zimbabwe. Amusingly, in view of later political developments, the lead character in the Buccaneer TV series, played by Bryan Marshall was named " Tony Blair".
Usage examples of "buccaneer".
I said nothing against the buccaneer, whom I knew to be the disinherited black sheep of a powerful Irish family, but I experienced a strange sensation of pleasure to learn from her lips just what their relationship was to each other.
It was at this crisis in their history that they began to be known as buccaneers, or people who practise the boucan, the native way of curing meat.
The most fervent patriot must admit that the early voyages of Drake were, to put it mildly, of a buccaneering kind, although his late voyages were more nearly akin to privateering cruises than piracy.
On Friday, May 27th, 1680, while ashore with a watering party in the Gulf of Nicoya, the interpreter, having had, no doubt, his fill of buccaneering, ran away.
Earl was not prompted to spend his life and fortune on buccaneering voyages merely by greed of plunder, but was chiefly inspired by intense love of his country, loyalty to his Queen, and bitter hatred of the Spaniards.
Lussan into buccaneering, as being a rapid method of gaining enough money to satisfy them and to enable him to return to the fashionable life he loved so well in Paris.
He had the choice of either going back to Barbados and putting the plantation in order or continue buccaneering, making this new island of Jamaica a base.
Dons, and furthermore it costs money, while buccaneering gives us a good income.
Ned and Thomas each made a fortune from buccaneering, and hung us with jewels and gave us fine clothes and splendid homes with dozens of servants .
Dons feel very strongly about buccaneers and buccaneering, and the idea of getting information from a traitorous one and then executing him by way of reward would appeal to them.
In the earlier days of buccaneering, before the period of great leaders like Mansfield, Morgan and Grammont, the captain was usually chosen from among their own number.
Falling ill through vexation and despair, he passed into the hands of a surgeon, who proved kind to him and finally gave him his liberty for 100 pieces of eight, to be paid after his first buccaneering voyage.
As the French pilots had been at odds among themselves as to the exact position of the fleet, the admiral had taken the precaution to send a fire-ship and three buccaneering vessels several miles in advance of the rest of the squadron.
Many sailors and marines were drowned, and seven men-of-war, besides several buccaneering ships, were lost on the rocks.
The inhabitants were beginning to realize that in the encouragement of planting, and not of buccaneering, lay the permanent welfare of the island.