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 Clarence Edgar Johnson
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 Rudyard Kipling
Salmon began to fall on the deck, heaved up on a picaroon.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
"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 W. O. Stoddard
