▪ I. buccaneering, vbl. n.
(bʌkəˈnɪərɪŋ)
[f. prec. + -ing1.]
The occupation of a buccaneer; piracy. buccaneering piece (F. fusil boucanier): a long musket used in hunting wild oxen (Littré).
| 1758 H. Walpole Corr. (1837) I. 383 Lord George Sackville refused to go a-buccaneering. 1761 Brit. Mag. II. 612 The said Looney took up a buccaneering piece..and shot the said Captain. 1824 W. Irving T. Trav. (1849) 380 Wealth, which it was whispered he had acquired by buccaneering. 1876 Green Short Hist. vii. §8 (1882) 430 A new buccaneering expedition..under Drake. |
▪ II. buccaˈneering, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That follows the occupation of a buccaneer.
| 1703 De Foe True-born Eng. i. 186 Norwegian Pirates, Buccaneering Danes..with Norman-French compound the Breed. 1800 Weems Washington i. (1877) 8 With their buccaneering legions. 1854 H. Miller Sch. & Schm. i. 12. 1868 Gladstone Juv. Mundi viii. (1870) 251 The rough manners of a sea-faring and buccaneering people. |