picaroon

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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 Kipling, Rudyard

The Athenæum necrologist accorded her half a column of obituary, in which she was described as "this pretty, picaroon woman, whose name can never be omitted from any chronicle of Bavaria."

From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Wyndham, Horace

"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.

I observed wretched devils playing here, whose whole standing kit would not have brought a picaroon at vendue.

From Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Power, Tyrone

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

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney