picaroon
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His helper forked up salmon with a picaroon.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
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 Clarence Edgar Johnson
Salmon began to fall on the deck, heaved up on a picaroon.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
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 Horace Wyndham
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