musquash
Americannoun
noun
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)
Example Sentences
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In Great Britain a musquash pelt is worth only about a shilling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because did we of the fraternity of hunters pause to consider, and reason, we must see that a musquash ought not, and cannot be different from a beaver.
From Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Martin Hunter
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
The flesh of musquash killed under the ice is highly esteemed by the Indians.
From Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Martin Hunter
Equally curious with these are his descriptions of the “beasts living in the water,” as the otter, musquash, &c., and of “the birds and fowls, both of land and water.”
From Curiosities of History Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 by William W. Wheildon
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