picaroon

Example Sentences

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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

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.

My Soul alive, can't I maintain discipline in my own ship without a blacksmith of a boiler-riveter putting me to shame before a yellow-nosed picaroon.

From Soldiers Three - Part 2 by Kipling, Rudyard

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

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