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

Nares quotes several instances of "picaro" and "picaroon" from our early writers.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

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

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

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

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney