Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 . - noun Meat prepared on a bucan.
- noun A kind of gridiron for smoking meat.
- noun A place where meat is smoked.
- noun In the West Indies, a place where coffee or cocoa is dried. Ill.
- noun Also bocan, boucan.
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A French suffix accounts for part of buccaneer, which derives from buccan (or bucan or boucan), a French version of the Tupí makem, meaning a wooden frame for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over a fire.
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