Pickeer /(?)/

Pick·eer

Pickeer

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Pickeered; p. pr. & vb. n. Pickeering

[F. picorer to go marauding, orig., to go to steal cattle, ultimately fr. L. pecus, pecoris, cattle; cf. F. picorée, Sp. pecorea robbery committed by straggling soldiers.]

To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon. [Obs.]

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