pickeer
American
[pik-eer]
/ pɪkˈɪər /
verb (used without object)
Obsolete.
-
to engage in skirmishes in advance of troops of an army.
-
to reconnoiter; scout; survey.
Etymology
Origin of pickeer
1635–45; < Dutch pikeeren, variant of pikereien < French picorée < Spanish pecorea pillaging, literally, cattle-raiding, verbid of pecorear to carry off cattle, derivative of Latin pecus cattle
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
