pycks

Updated: May 10, 2025

In a certain "channell" they took "sturgeons of a vast bignesse and Pycks of seaven foot long," probably the well-known muscalonge.

William Henry Johnson - French Pathfinders in North America

That point should be very fitt to build & advantgeous for the building of a fort, as we did the spring following. In that bay there is a chanell where we take great store of fishes, sturgeons of a vast biggnesse, and Pycks of seaven foot long. Att the end of this bay we landed.

Pierre Esprit Radisson - Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson

Each gun had some half-dozen chambers, so that the firing from them may have been rapid, perhaps three rounds a minute. All ships of war carried "pycks for hewing stone-shott," though after 1490, "the iron shott callyd bowletts," and their leaden brothers, came into general use.

John Masefield - On the Spanish Main: Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.