Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To serve in irregular or skirmishing warfare; form part of a body of skirmishers acting in the front or on the wings of an army, or independently, as foragers, etc.; act as a skirmisher.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See
picaroon .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To make a
raid forbooty ; tomaraud . - verb obsolete To
skirmish in advance of anarmy .
Etymologies
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French picorer ("to go marauding, originally to steal cattle"), ultimately from Latin pecoris ("cattle").
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