picaroon
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Oh, don't pause, sister!" squeaked terrified Julie, "here's where that picaroon in the black mask was wont to hide.
From The ghosts of their ancestors by Weymer Jay Mills
The skipper peered beneath his palm and swore by the Great Horn Spoon: — "'Fore Gad, the Chaplain of the Fleet would bless my picaroon!"
From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling
Nares quotes several instances of "picaro" and "picaroon" from our early writers.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
That there picaroon that we sunk to-day was as large a craft as I ever heard o' their usin'.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard
In case you may not know, a picaroon is like a single-bladed ax on a regular ax handle, except most of the ax blade is cut away, leaving only a pick instead of a blade.
From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Clarence Edgar Johnson
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