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pickaroon

/ 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.

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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