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  1. Spanish cimarron `wild, untamed'. in the West
  2. Indies and Suriname, a freed or escaped
  3. African slave. They were organized and armed
  4. by the Spanish in Jamaica in the late 17th
  5. century and early 18th century. They harried
  6. the British with guerrilla tactics.
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