picaroon

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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 this peculiar style, which may perhaps be regarded as an irregular descendant of the picaroon romance, Murger has no rival; and he is also, though on no extensive scale, a poet of great pathos.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various