picaroon
Example Sentences
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But I never believed in them as devoutly as I believed in the destruction of that infernal picaroon.
From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore
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 Johnson, Clarence Edgar
For Fortune changeth as the moon To caravel and picaroon.
From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard
My Soul alive, can't I maintain discipline in my own ship without a blacksmith of a boiler-riveter putting me to shame before a yellow-nosed picaroon.
From Soldiers Three - Part 2 by Kipling, Rudyard
I stopped 'em back there a ways with my picaroon, when they sung out, an' they walked down here on the side planks.
From The Spinner's Book of Fiction by Various
