picaroon

Example Sentences

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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.

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

I may make an imbroglio sometimes, but, for getting out of a scrape, I would back myself against any picaroon in the Levant; and that is saying a good deal.'

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Salmon began to fall on the deck, heaved up on a picaroon.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney

Now, I knew how many a half dozen was, but I didn't have the slightest idea what a picaroon looked like nor what it was used for.

From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Johnson, Clarence Edgar