Crossword-Solution: BOUCAN
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BOUCAN | anagram | CUBANO, NABUCO |
We have 1 clue for the answer “BOUCAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| INDIAN meat-curing apparatus | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with BOUCAN (5)
These bullocks were handed over to those of the company who ordinarily were boucan-hunters, and therefore skilled in the curing of meats, and for best part of a week thereafter they were busy at the waterside with the quartering and salting of carcases.
Bucaniers, desperate naval gentlemen living on BOUCAN, or hung beef; who are also called Flibustiers (FLIBUTIERS, 'Freebooters,' in French pronunciation, which is since grown strangely into FILIBUSTERS, Fillibustiers, and other mad forms, in the Yankee Newspapers now current): readers have heard of those dumb methods of protest.
The word 'buccaneer' itself comes from the French: boucan means the wood-fire at which the pirates dried and smoked their meat, and these fires, blazing on deserted islands, must often have warned merchant vessels to avoid an ever-present danger.
Portions of the flesh were then _boucané_ by the followers, the rest was left to dogs and birds, and the chase was pursued day by day till a sufficient number of hides were collected.
But deal first with the boucan." Robert opened the closet and found the boucan packed away in sheets or layers on shelves, and at once he became ravenously hungry.