namaycush
Americannoun
plural
namaycushes,plural
namaycushEtymology
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 Hubbard, Mina Benson
As we paddled I dropped a troll and before we stopped for the night landed a seven-pound namaycush, and another large one broke a troll.
From The Long Labrador Trail by Wallace, Dillon
Towards evening we put out our trolls, and I caught one big brook trout, one little namaycush, and a big one a twenty-pounder.
From Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador by Hubbard, Mina Benson
Trolling by the way, we caught one two-pound namaycush.
From The Lure of the Labrador Wild by Wallace, Dillon
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 Ralph, Julian
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