Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See bucan.

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Examples

  • The place where these grilling hurdles were set up was called boucan, and the method of roasting and smoking,

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

  • They were smoking moose-meat on just such a crate as is represented by With, in De Bry's "Collectio Peregrinationum," published in 1588, and which the natives of Brazil called boucan, (whence buccaneer,) on which were frequently shown pieces of human flesh drying along with the rest.

    The Maine Woods 1858

  • The place where the flesh was smoked was called by the Indians a "boucan," and the same term, from the poverty of an undeveloped language, was applied to the frame or grating on which the flesh was dried.

    The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922

  • But can you also jacasser (chatter), radoter (ramble on), cancaner (gossip), and faire du boucan (make a racket)?

    chahuter - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Their headquarters was at Tortuga, and they got the name “buccaneer” from the “boucan” or green wood grill used to roast their beef, until the Spanish tried to eliminate them by killing the cattle.

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  • But can you also jacasser (chatter), radoter (ramble on), cancaner (gossip), and faire du boucan (make a racket)?

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • But can you also jacasser (chatter), radoter (ramble on), cancaner (gossip), and faire du boucan (make a racket)?

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • But can you also jacasser (chatter), radoter (ramble on), cancaner (gossip), and faire du boucan (make a racket)?

    chahuter - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • But can you also jacasser (chatter), radoter (ramble on), cancaner (gossip), and faire du boucan (make a racket)?

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • Mais je ne l'ai pas fait ... mon velux fait un boucan du diable et l'ouvrir aurait reveillé ma mere deja bien malade!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

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