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Re: My pirate lexicon.
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lugnet.pirates
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Mon, 24 Apr 2000 22:38:31 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Jeffrey Watts writes:
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Markus Wolf wrote:
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> > Thanks for the corrections. Sure and certain, I always thought
> > Corsair were a type of ship, but Webster uses the word for both a ship
> > and a pyrate.
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> Corsairs were the pirates of the Mediterranean - specifically of the
> Barbary coast (what is now modern-day Libya).
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> Buccaneers were a group of pirates that originated on Hispanola - but the
> term later became used in a general sense for Carribean pirates towards
> the latter part of the Golden Age of piracy (late 1600s, early 1700s).
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> If I recall correctly, "Buccaneer" is derived from the way that the group
> on Hispanola cooked their meat -- barbeque. I'll check my tomes when I
> return home, but I'm 95% sure that that is correct.
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> J.
Don't bother to look - you are correct on all accounts. "Corsair" is most
often related to the Barbary pirates, but it also meant a privateer (sanctioned
piracy - but again, usually associated with north african pirates). I've seen
the dictionary vaguely refer to a corsair as a ship, but I haven't seen it
applied to a specific type. It seems to be refering to the purpose of the
ship, not the ship itself (meaning virtually anything could be a "corsair" just
as anything could be a "privateer").
The barbequed meat (closer to smoking I imagine because the purpose was to dry
the meat to preserve it) was known as boucan.
Bruce
The Corsair
(The pyrate formerly known as Redbeard - but after a week's vacation from
shaving, has confirmed the sad truth that that no longer applies)
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 | | Re: My pirate lexicon.
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| (...) The ship type "corsair" is derived from the type of boat--a semi-militarised dhow, if I'm not mistaken--that the pyrate sort of Corsair would use. Later it was extended to other ship types used by such raiders. IIRC it's a motile (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | Re: My pirate lexicon.
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| (...) Right, and "to smoke-dry" or "to cure" is "boucaner". So one could call the Caribbean pirates from Hispanola the "Jerkys". :-) By the way, anyone interested in a good historical pirate book (other than _A General History of the Pyrates_, which (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Corsairs were the pirates of the Mediterranean - specifically of the Barbary coast (what is now modern-day Libya). Buccaneers were a group of pirates that originated on Hispanola - but the term later became used in a general sense for (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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