Buccan

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Buc´can

n.	1.	A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire.
	2.	A place where meat is smoked.
	3.	Buccaned meat.
v. t.	1.	To expose (meat) in strips to fire and smoke upon a buccan.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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