pickeer
English edit
Etymology edit
French picorer (“to go marauding, originally to steal cattle”), ultimately from Latin pecoris (“cattle”).
Verb edit
pickeer (third-person singular simple present pickeers, present participle pickeering, simple past and past participle pickeered)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pickeer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)