pickaroon
Britishnoun
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On river drives, he'd be right out there with a pickaroon, keeping the logs moving.
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He had long been a hardy adventurer, a kind of equivocal borderer, half trader, half smuggler, with a tolerable dash of the pickaroon.
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"I have sent for you, sir—" "Pickaroon!" "—sir," continued Mr. Fogg, "to ask you to sell me your vessel."
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Men curved their palms at their ears, wondering what old Pickaroon could have to say in City Hall.
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"Hy, yi, old Pickaroon!" came a child's shrill voice from a mill window.
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