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pickaroon

British  
/ ˌpɪkəˈruːn /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of picaroon

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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On river drives, he'd be right out there with a pickaroon, keeping the logs moving.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington

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