Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See bucan, bucaneer, bucaneerish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To expose (meat) in strips to fire and smoke upon a buccan.
  • noun A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire.
  • noun A place where meat is smoked.
  • noun Buccaned meat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a framework or grill upon which meat is laid to dry, or to be roasted
  • verb to dry meat on such a frame

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Examples

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  • The little boy responds, "On either side o 'me' buccan 'head!"

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  • Current Music: where are my buccaneers? under my buccan--hat!

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  • Their name of buccaneers comes from buccan, an Indian word signifying a smoke-house, in which beef and other meats were dried; as one of the earliest enterprises of the rovers was the stealing of Spanish cattle in San

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  • In French, a boucanier was a person who so prepared meat; eventually the word, which became buccaneer in English, came to mean a freebooter or pirate because of the habit of such persons to use a buccan to cure their meat.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

  • 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.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

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