1. (n.) 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.

2. (v. i.) To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.

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