namaycush
Americannoun
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namaycushes,
plural
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namaycush
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of namaycush
1735–45; < Cree name·kos < Proto-Algonquian *name·kwehsa
Example Sentences
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Caught a 7-lb. namaycush and so we eat to- night.
From Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador by Mina Benson Hubbard
In the course of our search we caught a namaycush, and immediately put to shore to eat it.
From The Lure of the Labrador Wild by Dillon Wallace
During the morning I dropped a troll and landed the first namaycush of the trip—a seven-pound fish.
From The Long Labrador Trail by Dillon Wallace
The namaycush of Nepigon weigh from nine to twenty-five pounds.
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
Caught three namaycush in AM., then wind bound by fierce N.W. gale at camp.
From Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador by Mina Benson Hubbard
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