picaroon

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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

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.

He, the picaroon, companion of rogues and small marauders, had seen many and diverse love affairs.

From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Bonner, Geraldine

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

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