Pickeer
Pickeer , intransitive verb
[French picorer to go marauding, orig., to go to steal cattle, ultimately from Latin pecus, pecoris, cattle; compare French picorée, Sp. pecorea robbery committed by straggling soldiers.]
To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon. [Obsolete] — Bp. Burnet