namaycush
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of namaycush
1735–45; < Cree name·kos < Proto-Algonquian *name·kwehsa
Example Sentences
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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
Among them are the Great Lake trout of America, Cristinomer namaycush, and the Danubian "salmon" or huchen, Salmo hucho.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various
Ate big namaycush and were ready to push on early this morning.
From Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador by Hubbard, Mina Benson
While paddling we got a seven-pound namaycush, which enabled us to eat that night.
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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