verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To make a raid for booty; to maraud. obsolete
2. 2
   To skirmish in advance of an army. obsolete

Etymology

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

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