But before she could speak a grizzled picaroon spat at her slippers.

If the picaroon ship had survived several centuries in the bay, then certainly another quarter of a century or so wouldn't have made that much difference.

Though it may be spelled the same, the tool is not to be confused with the 17th century term for pirate, picaroon.

"Treasure's nigh as peace falling from Heaven and it's for to tell there's a picaroon ship down thar!"

Doncha be talking about my picaroon ship!"

Probably, dancing upon the air from the Hanging Oak because you are a picaroon, a buccaneer at heart."

He faced Picaroon again in the Middle Park Stakes.

Sharp functions as a picaroon by being a social outsider who is able to expose the manners of the upper gentry to ridicule.

Perkūnas pursues his opponent jods for picaroon or theft of fertility and cattle.

A pickaroon (or picaroon) is a wood-handled, metal-topped log handling tool.

A 'Picaroon' was a common tool used in the logging industry in New Brunswick.

Only after Rigaud was forced out of power by the forces of Toussaint L'Ouverture did the picaroon attacks cease.

Beyond his Classic winners, Taylor also trained Buchan, Picaroon, and Sceptre, amongst others.

At Kempton he finished second in the Imperial Produce Stakes to Picaroon, the year's champion two-year-old colt.

Svetolik Ranković tinged his picaroon romances with the spirit of revolt against established moral and political arrangements, like Janko Veselinović.

Fonny Boy hated going to the dentist and often complained to his parents that Dr. Faux was a picaroon, which was the Tangier word for pirate.

The skipper peered beneath his palm and swore by the Great Horn Spoon: -- "'Fore Gad, the Chaplain of the Fleet would bless my picaroon!"

After a slow count to ten, he opens one eye to make certain he is alone, then lifts his head - too quickly, for the pain in his skull is like the blow of a picaroon.

The space-axe-a combination and sublimation of battle-axe, mace, bludgeon, and lumberman's picaroon, a massively needle-pointed implement of potentialities limited only by the physical strength and bodily agility of its wielder.

The picaroon strain, already made familiar in Spain through the Picaresque novels of Lazarillo de Tormes and his successors, appears in one or another of them, especially in the Rinconete y Cortadillo.

The two best-known weapons of the Patrol, however, are probably the DeLameter energy beam handgun, and the space-axe, described as a "combination and sublimation of battle-axe, mace, harpoon, and lumberman's picaroon" and the favored weapon of Valerian marines.

As Fonny Boy ate a fried oyster or crab breakfast sandwich, he would imagine himself hauling up a crab pot and finding it was snagged on a sunken picaroon ship, or maybe one of the crabs would be holding on to a gold coin or a diamond.

Manna took the lead in the final furlong but was outpaced in the last stages of the race and finished third behind Picaroon and Solario On his final start of the year, Manna beat Cross Bow to win the Moulton Stakes at Newmarket.

Then said the souls of the slaves that men threw overboard: "Kennelled in the picaroon a weary band were we; But Thy arm was strong to save, And it touched us on the wave, And we drowsed the long tides idle till Thy Trumpets tore the sea."