picaroon

Example Sentences

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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.

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

I observed wretched devils playing here, whose whole standing kit would not have brought a picaroon at vendue.

From Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Power, Tyrone

On the way from Genoa to Messina Irving's vessel was boarded by a piratical picaroon.

From Washington Irving by Boynton, Henry Walcott

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