Nipmuck

American  

[nip-muhk] / ˈnɪp mʌk /

noun

• Nipmucks,
  plural
• Nipmuck
  plural

1. a member of an Algonquian Indian people living in the vicinity of Worcester, Mass.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Nipmuck
  plural
• Nipmucks
  plural

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Example Sentences

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Nipmuck Nipmucks

There were also Nipmuck towns between Boston and the Connecticut River Valley, and the Abenakis held most of inland Maine.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

The Wampanoag, along with the Nipmuck, Pocumtuck, and Narragansett, took up arms to drive the English from the land.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

Last year, 19 tribes sent representatives, including the Miwok and Maidu, from central California; the Pawnee, from Kansas and Nebraska; the Powhatan, from Virginia; and the Nipmuck, from Massachusetts.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2014

In July 1675, three Christian Indians were sent as guides and interpreters to an expedition to treat with the Indians in the Nipmuck country. 

From Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field by Charlotte Mary Yonge

The Nipmuck Indians were a powerful tribe, consisting of many petty clans spread over the whole of the interior of Massachusetts.

From King Philip Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

But, to the west, the Narragansetts—traditional rivals largely untouched by the epidemic—now outnumbered the Wampanoags, and that led to the strengthening of Ousamequin’s alliances with the surviving Massachusett and another nearby group, the Nipmucks.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019

There they obtained the help of the Nipmucks, who had never been very friendly towards the English.

From Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola by F. M. (Frances Melville) Perry

Governor Leverett saw how great the danger would be if the other tribes should follow the example set by Philip, and Captain Edward Hutchinson was accordingly sent to Brookfield to negotiate with the Nipmucks.

From The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty by John Fiske

The court at Boston, apprehensive that the Nipmucks might be induced to join King Philip, sent some messengers to treat with them.

From King Philip Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

That night, when they thought I slept, I overheard the leader of the band that brought me talking with Wattasacompanum, the chief of the Nipmucks.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 by Various

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