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Definition of buccaneers:

Persons who, in the W. I. and S. Amer., hunted wild animals for their skins, and rudely preserved much of the flesh by drying it after the Indian fashion, called bucaning; pirates or sea- robbers, who in former times principally attacked the Spanish settlements in Amer.

Usage examples:

Many drifted down to that region of romance and outlawry, dear to the heart of the romantic boy, the Spanish Main, and there, as pirates in a small way and as buccaneers, pursued the predatory life.

- "American Merchant Ships and Sailors", Willis J. Abbot.
There was for a long time even a comity among these amiable buccaneers, who agreed not to interfere with each other, and so were enabled to pay over to their victims some portion of the profit from their stolen goods.

- "The Man of Letters as a Man of Business", William Dean Howells.
He went to the governor, related his misfortune, and induced him, in the absence of men- of- war, to fit up a merchant vessel with twenty- four guns and a sloop with ten, and despatch them under the command of Captains Rogers and Graves in chase of the bold buccaneers who roved so daringly in waters so near port.

- "The Corsair King", Mór Jókai.