picaroon
Example Sentences
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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
Salmon began to fall on the deck, heaved up on a picaroon.
From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney
His helper forked up salmon with a picaroon.
From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney
Nothing but the great need for secrecy had prevented more extended inland hospitalities to the brave Americanos who had destroyed the picaroon.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by Stoddard, W. O.
But if one is insane, if one has inherited one's grandfather's characteristics as idler, loafer, lounger, dreamer, lover or picaroon, what then?
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben
