picaroon

Example Sentences

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"Hurrah!" arose in a general roar from the crew of the Noank, more than one voice adding, vociferously, the desire that was felt to smash the picaroon.

From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by Stoddard, W. O.

His helper forked up salmon with a picaroon.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney

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 Stoddard, W. O.

MacRae threw open his hatches and counted the salmon as they came flipping off the point of a picaroon.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney

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)