PICAROON', noun A plunderer; a pirate. This word is not applied to a highway robber, but to pirates and plunderers of wrecks.
In all wars, Corsica and Majorca have been nests of picaroons.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.