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
He seemed suddenly to have quite forsaken humanity, and gone over to the musquash side.
From Canoeing in the wilderness by Thoreau, Henry David
Beaver, otter, mink and musquash are dark or light colored according to the water they live in.
From Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Hunter, Martin
He did not like him, and declared that all he said "was not worth talk about a musquash."
From Canoeing in the wilderness by Thoreau, Henry David
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 Hunter, Martin
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