picaroon

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

"Better than I did," says I, speaking on impulse, "for sure you are the strangest picaroon that ever cheated the gallows."

From Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Farnol, Jeffery

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 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

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

From Washington Irving by Boynton, Henry Walcott

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