Pick-eer’, v. t.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. PICKEERED; p. pr. & vb. n. PICKEERING.] [Fr. picorer, to go marauding, originally to go stealing cattle, from Lat. pecus, pecoris, cattle. Cf. Sp. pecora, robbery committed by straggling soldiers.]

1. To pillage; to pirate. Hudibras.
2. To skirmish, as soldiers on the outpost of an army, or in pillaging parties.

He had often pickeered out on Sheldon and some other bishops. Burnet.