Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickaroons
Literary usage of Pickaroons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)
"Some of the larger gunboats, or vessels better uniting swiftness with force,
would also be necessary to scour the interior, and cut off any pickaroons which ..."
2. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson, Albert Ellery Bergh (1907)
"Some of the larger gunboats, or vessels better uniting swiftness with force,
would also be necessary to scour the interior, and cut off any pickaroons which ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1847)
"... exposed to all kinds of weather, as weH as to capture from some of the many
pickaroons that infested the coast. An acting lieutenant of the Abergavenny, ..."
4. Maryland Historical Magazine by Maryland Historical Society (1910)
"... as I call them ; the Chesapeake Bay being at that time, when the army of
Cornwallis was at Yorktown, infested by innumerable pickaroons, barges, ..."
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