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Definition of Picarooning
1. picaroon [v] - See also: picaroon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Picarooning
Literary usage of Picarooning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1839)
"In order, we presume, to render its pages more attractive, Mr. Willis embarked
early in the summer fur England, on a voyage of literary picarooning; ..."
2. Porcupine's Works: Containing Various Writings and Selections, Exhibiting a by William Cobbett (1801)
"... to the picarooning Captain that he could not have her tried and fold at Cuba,
he was told that fhe was already ibid ; and foon afterwards a ..."
3. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1837)
"... two mast-heads at once, seeing as he al'ays carries a pair of horns as big as
a bull's. No, no, Bob; you wants to make a gentleman of the picarooning ..."
4. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1870)
"It was in this picarooning way indeed that armies during war were chiefly maintained
in the seventeenth century. But worse than these marauding exploits was ..."
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