pickaroon

"Frank had a hole in his back that looked like it came from a pickaroon I saw in his woodshed and now we have Morgan placed under a tree ..."

Angel With No Hands Adams, Stephen 2005

I leaned the pickaroon against the wall to dry and started getting ready to sharpen the buck saw.

Angel With No Hands Adams, Stephen 2005

Off the island of Planoca it was overpowered and captured by a little pickaroon, with lateen sails and a couple of guns, and a most villainous crew, in poverty-stricken garments, rusty cutlasses in their hands and stilettos and pistols stuck in their waistbands.

Washington Irving Warner, Charles D 1881

Off the island of Planoca it was overpowered and captured by a little pickaroon, with lateen sails and a couple of guns, and a most villainous crew, in poverty-stricken garments, rusty cutlasses in their hands and stilettos and pistols stuck in their waistbands.

Washington Irving Charles Dudley Warner 1864

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Tales of a Traveller 1824

He had long been a hardy adventurer, a kind of equivocal borderer, half trader, half smuggler, with a tolerable dash of the pickaroon.

Tales of a Traveller Washington Irving 1821

I am told to-day, which troubles me, that great complaint is made upon the 'Change, among our merchants, that the very Ostend little pickaroon men-of-war do offer violence to our merchant-men, and search them, beat our masters, and plunder them, upon pretence of carrying Frenchmen's goods.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

Ostend little pickaroon men-of-war do offer violence to our merchant-men, and search them, beat our masters, and plunder them, upon pretence of carrying Frenchmen's goods.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 60: December 1667 Samuel Pepys 1668

I am told to-day, which troubles me, that great complaint is made upon the 'Change, among our merchants, that the very Ostend little pickaroon men-of-war do offer violence to our merchant-men, and search them, beat our masters, and plunder them, upon pretence of carrying Frenchmen's goods.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

I am told to-day, which troubles me, that great complaint is made upon the 'Change, among our merchants, that the very Ostend little pickaroon men-of-war do offer violence to our merchant-men, and search them, beat our masters, and plunder them, upon pretence of carrying Frenchmen's goods.

Diary of Samuel Pepys, December 1667 Pepys, Samuel 1667