picaroon

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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

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

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 Athenæum necrologist accorded her half a column of obituary, in which she was described as "this pretty, picaroon woman, whose name can never be omitted from any chronicle of Bavaria."

From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Wyndham, Horace

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.