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pickeer

pickeer


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  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.