Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickaroon
Literary usage of Pickaroon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States by Ralph Clement Bryant (1913)
"... pickaroon Laborers engaged in bringing cross-ties, stave bolts and other timber
down steep slopes often use a pickaroon, which has a handle 36 or 38 ..."
2. The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork.: Containing a by Charles Smith, Thomas Crofton Croker, Richard Caulfield (1893)
"... to French privateers, and rendered some few of our colliers and ' small vessels
to be apprehensive of the rapacious insolence of their pickaroon, etc. ..."
3. Around the world in eighty days by Jules Verne (1874)
"I have sent for you, sir—" " pickaroon!" "—Sir," continued Mr. Fogg, "to ask you
to sell me your vessel." " No! By all the devils, no ! ..."
4. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1859)
"He was somewhat of a trader, something more of a smuggler, with a considerable
dash of the pickaroon. He had traded for many years among the pirates, ..."
5. Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789 by William Babcock Weeden (1890)
"... at least against any small pickaroon." But Faneuil would avoid risks, and
ordered £600 sterling insured on vessel and cargo, for his one third part, ..."
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