The Collaborative International Dictionary
Buccan \Buc"can\, n. [F. boucan. See Buccaneer.]
A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire.
A place where meat is smoked.
Buccaned meat.
Buccan \Buc"can\, v. t. [F. boucaner. See Buccaneer.] To expose (meat) in strips to fire and smoke upon a buccan.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A framework or grill upon which meat is laid to dry, or to be roasted. 2 (cx uncountable English) Meat prepared in this way. vb. To dry meat on such a frame.
Wikipedia
Buccan or Boucan is the native South American and Caribbean name for a wooden framework or hurdle on which meat was slow-roasted or smoked over a fire. Spaniards called the same process "barbacoa", later " barbecue".
The term " buccaneer" for pirates or privateers, is said to be derived from buccan. In the Caribbean, seafarers used the wooden frames for smoking meat, preferably manatee. From this derived the French word boucane and hence the name boucanier for French hunters who used such frames to smoke meat from feral cattle and pigs on Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic). English colonists anglicised the word boucanier to buccaneer.
Usage examples of "buccan".
And Loric and Phais both smiled down at the buccan, while Beau looked at him in astonishment.
And when finally the Spawn were gone from sight, Phais awakened the buccan and down the slope they all went, back to the horses and ponies, Beau grumbling that Year's Short Day was now also gone and they hadn't gotten to have their birthday party.
Even so, Terror paced alongside the buccan, keeping him company on his perilous path.
He was dressed much like the ones who had escorted the buccan under the wall: fleece jacket over a chain mail shirt, with quilted brown breeks and fleece-lined boots.
Different from Human, he was, and different from Elf as well, yet in his features he held something of each, or so it seemed to the buccan.
As the buccan stood looking, Mage Alvaron waved Tip to a vacant seat at hand.
A vision of Rynna filled Tipperton's mind, and his eyes brimmed, and in that moment a sense of shared sorrow swept over the buccan.
Teeming maggot-folk yet beringed the city, but the buccan had expected no less.
Even so he rushed forward, running ahead, passing the wheeled ballista, the buccan trying not to scream.
In the stillness which followed, he looked down at the buccan and then out at his captains and warriors, his lords and ladies, his healers .
Imongar came limping to Tipperton and embraced the buccan and whispered her thanks to him in spite of his having stabbed her in the leg with one of his very sharp arrows.
And the Elf reached out and clasped the buccan to him and wept as if he were nought but a child.
Then he looked at Tip, his eyes widening in surprise to see the buccan lying at the lip on his stomach as if he were afraid of heights.
And even as they stood up to their knees in the sliding shatter, stood in that fragmented golden glow—Elfess and buccan and damman, Riatha with the Lastborn Firstborns at her side—overhead the Eye of the Hunter streamed crimson through the sky.
In triumph he grasped it, jerking it free, turning, to be smashed back by the haft of a barbed spear, the buccan crashing hindward against the pillar and collapsing in agony.