bucan

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A kind of gridiron for smoking meat.
2. n. A place where meat is smoked.
3. n. In the West Indies, a place where coffee or cocoa is dried. Ill.
4. n. Also bocan, boucan.
5. To cut into long pieces, salt, and smoke on a bucan, as beef: a mode of preserving meat formerly practised by the Caribs and afterward by Europeans in the West Indies. Also boucan.
6. n. Meat prepared on a bucan.