buccaneers

English - Turkish

Definition of buccaneers in English Turkish dictionary

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buccaneer

deniz eşkıyası

buccaneer

korsan

buccaneer

(isim) korsan

buccaneer

deniz eskiyası

buccaneer

korsanlık yapmak

English - English

Definition of buccaneers in English English dictionary

plural of buccaneer

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buccaneer

Any of a group of seamen who cruised on their own account on the Spanish Main and in the Pacific in the 17th century; similar to pirates but did not prey on ships of their own nation

buccaneer

A pirate

buccaneer

To engage in piracy against any but one's own nation's ships

In 1596 and 1597 he bucaneered against Sao Thomi, the Portuguese slaving settlement off the coast of West Africa, and in the Spanish Main.

buccaneer

{n} a pirate, a free-booter

buccan

A place where meat is smoked

buccan

Buccaned meat

buccan

To expose (meat) in strips to fire and smoke upon a buccan

buccan

a framework or grill upon which meat is laid to dry, or to be roasted

buccan

A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire

buccan

to dry meat on such a frame

buccaneer

To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber

buccaneer

If you describe someone as a buccaneer, you mean that they are clever and successful, especially in business, but you do not completely trust them. Any of the British, French, or Dutch sea adventurers who chiefly haunted the Caribbean and the Pacific seaboard of South America during the latter part of the 17th century, preying on Spanish settlements and shipping. Though inspired by such privateers as Englishman Francis Drake, the buccaneers were not legitimate privateers (the commissions they held were seldom valid), but neither were they the outlawed pirates who flourished in the 18th century. Usually escaped servants, former soldiers, or loggers, they ran their ships democratically, divided plunder equitably, and even provided a form of accident insurance. They influenced the founding of the South Sea Co., and stories of their adventures inspired more serious voyages of exploration as well as the tales of writers Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, and Robert Louis Stevenson

buccaneer

live like a buccaneer

buccaneer

{i} pirate

buccaneer

A robber upon the sea; a pirate; a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries

buccaneer

A buccaneer was a pirate, especially one who attacked and stole from Spanish ships in the 17th and 18th centuries

buccaneer

someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

Turkish pronunciation

bʌkınirz

Pronunciation

/ˌbəkəˈnērz/ /ˌbʌkəˈniːrz/

Etymology

[ "b&-k&-'nir ] (noun.) circa 1690. French boucanier.