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Boucanier
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The user of a boucan grill. applied to french religious and political refugees who eked out a living on the island of hispaniola by hunting cattle and selling their hides, tallow, and cured meat to passing ships. boucaniers were far from prepossessing. their faces were almost hidden by long tresses and thick beards. they stank to the heavens, and were so heavily-tanned that they might have been smoked on their own curing fires. clothing was usually a bloodstained, fat-impregnated, cotton vest or coarse linen shirt. their rawhide leggings had been donned while still reeking and worn until they stiffened to the proper shape. when spain destroyed their herds and drove them from their homes, many boucaniers settled on the island of tortuga and turned to piracy. the name was eventually anglicized to buccaneer and applied to all 17th century caribbean pirates. see also filibuster.
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Impregnated, английский
- A metallic material in which fragments of diamond or other hard substances (in unflocculated distribution) are intermixed and embedded. see impregnated bit.
- Said of rock, fabrics, or other bodies the pores of which are more or less filled with extraneous materials such as oil, tar, resins, rubber, etc.
- Containing metallic minerals, scattered or dif fused throughout the mass. properly used in re ferring to country rock containing scattered grains of mineral similar to that in the vein. 53
Filibuster, английский
[1] currently, the obstruction of legislative action by prolonged speaking in a senate or assembly. [2] formerly, an irregular military adventurer engaging in unauthorized warfare against a state. [3] a buccaneer. early caribbean pirates favored a small, swift craft with superior handling qualities which the dutch called a vlieboot, naming its sailors a vliebuiters. the french adapted this to call seagoing pirates filibustiers, in order to distinguish them from shore hunting boucaniers although, in fact, the pursuits were interchangeable. boucanier, anglicized to buccaneer, eventually became the generic name for caribbean pirates during their “golden age” (roughly 1680–1730), while filibustier was anglicized to filibuster and then to freebooter.
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Bounce line, английский
The point off a hostile beach at which underwater demolition teams launch their rubber boats, usually at night.
Boucan, английский
[1] a grill or barbeque used to smoke meat. [2] strips of cured meat similar to biltong.
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