Picaroon

pik-a-roon', n. One -who pickeers esp. a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate. [Sp. picaron, fr. picaro, roguish, knavish, F. picorer, to go marauding, — orig. to "steal cattle, L. pectus, pecoris, cattle.] Picaresque', -resk', a. Pert, to a style of novel formerly popular, esp. in Spain, which recounted _the deeds of robbers, pirates, etc. [F.] — Pickeer', -er', v. and [-eered (-erd'), -eering.] To pillage, pirate; to skirmish.