In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PICKEERED
Verb
pickeered
simple past tense and past participle of pickeer
Source: Wiktionary
PICKEER
Pick*eer", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pickeered; p. pr. & vb. n. Pickeering.] Etym: [F. picorer to go marauding, orig., to go to steal cattle, ultimately fr. L. pecus, pecoris, cattle; cf. F. picorée, Sp. pecorea robbery committed by straggling soldiers.]
Definition: To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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