“buccaneering”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

buccaneering

释义

▪ 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).
1758H. Walpole Corr. (1837) I. 383 Lord George Sackville refused to go a-buccaneering.1761Brit. Mag. II. 612 The said Looney took up a buccaneering piece..and shot the said Captain.1824W. Irving T. Trav. (1849) 380 Wealth, which it was whispered he had acquired by buccaneering.1876Green 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.
1703De Foe True-born Eng. i. 186 Norwegian Pirates, Buccaneering Danes..with Norman-French compound the Breed.1800Weems Washington i. (1877) 8 With their buccaneering legions.1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. i. 12. 1868 Gladstone Juv. Mundi viii. (1870) 251 The rough manners of a sea-faring and buccaneering people.

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