# Buccan

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{{Short description|Device for grilling}}
{{for|the town in Australia|Buccan, Queensland}}

'''Buccan''' or '''Boucan''' is the native [South America](/source/South_America)n and [Caribbean](/source/Caribbean) name<ref name="DEL">Diccionario de Etimologías [http://etimologias.dechile.net/?bucanero]</ref> for a wooden framework or hurdle on which meat was slow-roasted or [smoked](/source/Smoking_(cooking)) over a fire. Spaniards called the same process "[barbacoa](/source/barbacoa)", later "[barbecue](/source/barbecue)".<ref>[Oxford English Dictionary](/source/Oxford_English_Dictionary)</ref>

The term "[buccaneer](/source/buccaneer)" for pirates or privateers, is said to be<ref name="DEL"/> derived from buccan. In the Caribbean, seafarers used the wooden frames for smoking meat, preferably [pork](/source/pork). From this derived the [French](/source/French_language) word ''boucane'' and hence the name ''boucanier'' for French hunters who used such frames to smoke meat from [feral](/source/feral) [cattle](/source/cattle) and [pigs](/source/Razorback) on [Hispaniola](/source/Hispaniola) (now [Haiti](/source/Haiti) and the [Dominican Republic](/source/Dominican_Republic)). [English](/source/Kingdom_of_England) colonists [anglicised](/source/Anglicisation) the word ''boucanier'' to ''buccaneer''.<ref name=little>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YRM-RpBiyTEC& ''The Buccaneer's Realm: Pirate Life on the Spanish Main, 1674-1688''] by Benerson Little (Potomac Books, 2007)</ref>

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{{Barbecue}}

Category:Barbecue
Category:Smoking (cooking)
Category:Cooking techniques

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