picaroon

Example Sentences

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Salmon began to fall on the deck, heaved up on a picaroon.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney

On the way from Genoa to Messina Irving's vessel was boarded by a piratical picaroon.

From Washington Irving by Boynton, Henry Walcott

For Fortune changeth as the moon To caravel and picaroon.

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard

The commander was a calm-tempered man, accustomed to disappointment, or he might have joined with some of the younger officers in their expressions of disgust at having lost the picaroon.

From The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Nares quotes several instances of "picaro" and "picaroon" from our early writers.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)