pickeer

verb — 2 senses

pickeer

verb

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

1

Obsolete To make a raid for booty; to maraud.

2

Obsolete To skirmish in advance of an army.

Derived terms
pickeerer

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