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pickeer

pickeer verb: to make a raid for booty; to maraud or loot.

Verb

pickeer (third-person singular simple present pickeers, present participle pickeering, simple past and past participle pickeered)

  1. (obsolete) To make a raid for booty; to maraud or loot.
  2. (obsolete) To skirmish in advance of an army.

Forms of pickeer

third-person singular presentpickeers
present participlepickeering
past participlepickeered
pastpickeered

Origin of pickeer

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

Words formed from pickeer

Questions about pickeer

What does pickeer mean?
Pickeer means to make a raid for booty; to maraud or loot.
What part of speech is pickeer?
Pickeer is a verb.
What is the past tense of pickeer?
The past tense of pickeer is pickeered.

Words near pickeer in the dictionary

  1. picked up what someone was putting down
  2. pickedevant
  3. pickedevants
  4. pickedness
  5. pickee
  6. pickeer
  7. pickeered
  8. pickeerer
  9. pickeerers
  10. pickeering
  11. pickeers

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