资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pickeer \Pick*eer"\, 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. picor['e]e, 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.] --Bp. Burnet.