Crossword-Solution: BOUCANIER 9 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The French adventurers, however, seem always to have restricted the word "boucanier" to its proper signification, that of a hunter and curer of meat; and when they developed into corsairs, by a curious contrast they adopted an English name and called themselves "filibustiers," which is merely the French sailor's way of pronouncing the English word "freebooter."[101] The buccaneers or West Indian corsairs owed their origin as well as their name to the cattle and hog-hunters of Hispaniola and Tortuga.

Remember when I declared they would someday soil their breeches whenever they heard the word '_boucanier'_? Well, it's come true.

What if tomorrow night we feasted like the old days, _boucanier_ style? Why not show your _femme_ how we used to live?" "Jacques, we've got victuals on the _Defiance_." "Is that what you think of me?" He sighed.

Why had Hugh painted Jacques as erratic and dangerous? Could it be because the old _boucanier_ had managed to better him in that pistol duel they once had, and he'd never quite lived it down? Maybe that was why he never seemed to get around to explaining what really happened that time.

Then he edged closer to where the old boucanier lay, reached down and ripped away a ring of heavy keys secured to his belt.