picaroon

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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

Oh, don't pause, sister!" squeaked terrified Julie, "here's where that picaroon in the black mask was wont to hide.

From The ghosts of their ancestors by Mills, Weymer Jay

MacRae threw open his hatches and counted the salmon as they came flipping off the point of a picaroon.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney

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 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