English Explanatory Dictionary

pickeer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To make a raid for booty; to maraud.
  2. To skirmish in advance of an army.

Word forms

pickeer pickeers pickeering pickeered

Etymology

From French picorer (“to go marauding, originally to steal cattle”), ultimately from Latin pecoris (“cattle”).

Derived words

pickeerer
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