musquash

American  

[muhs-kwosh] / ˈmʌs kwɒʃ /

noun

1. Chiefly British. the fur of the muskrat.

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musquash British  

/ ˈmʌskwɒʃ /

noun

1. another name for muskrat , used esp to refer to its fur

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Etymology

Origin of musquash

1770–80, < Massachusett cognate of Western Abenaki mòskwas (perhaps equivalent to Proto-Algonquian *mo·ŝk- bobbing above the surface of the water + *-exkwe· head + derivational elements, i.e., the one whose head bobs above the water)

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Example Sentences

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musquash

In Great Britain a musquash pelt is worth only about a shilling.

From Time Magazine Archive

A single stretch of good marsh ground has yielded that number of skins year after year without a sign of the hunt telling on the prolific little musquash.

From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut

I caught him late in the fall in a trap set for musquash, the other lakes being frozen over.

From Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Martin Hunter

The only reassuring note in the "musquash talk" to-day is sounded when the subject of candles is reached.

From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Julian Ralph

Just before night we saw a musquash, the only one we saw in this voyage, swimming downward on the opposite side of the stream.

From Canoeing in the wilderness by Henry David Thoreau

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