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pickeering

pickeering is the present participle and gerund of pickeer.

Meaning of pickeer

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.

Questions about pickeering

What is pickeering the present participle and gerund of?
Pickeering is the present participle and gerund of pickeer.

Words near pickeering in the dictionary

  1. pickee
  2. pickeer
  3. pickeered
  4. pickeerer
  5. pickeerers
  6. pickeering
  7. pickeers
  8. pickees
  9. pickel
  10. pickelhaube
  11. pickelhauben

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pickeering (page history and authors); pickeer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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