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)
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In Great Britain a musquash pelt is worth only about a shilling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides these there are many useful, though commonplace, fur-bearing animals like mink, musquash, skunk, raccoon, opossum, hamster, rabbit, hares and moles, that thrive by depredations upon cultivated land.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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
He seemed suddenly to have quite forsaken humanity, and gone over to the musquash side.
From Canoeing in the wilderness by Henry David Thoreau
The spearing of the musquash is done in this wise: The rats throw up little mud-cone lodges, or houses, out from the shore, in about a foot of water.
From Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Martin Hunter
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