A marauder. The word is used by Kipling for a slave-ship; see Notes and Queries, 10 S. ix. 185, 234.
1855. However honest they might be at this writing, they had certainly, at some past period not so very remote, been very exemplary picaroons.—W. G. Simms, ‘Border Beagles,’ p. 252 (N.Y.). (Italics in the original.)
