Nipmuck

[ nip-muhk ]

noun,plural Nip·mucks, (especially collectively) Nip·muck.
  1. a member of an Algonquian Indian people living in the vicinity of Worcester, Mass.

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How to use Nipmuck in a sentence

  • Winslow, with the main body of the troops, advanced rapidly towards the Nipmuck country.

  • We frequently glean from diaries of the times hints of the pleasures of having a wild Nipmuck or Narragansett Indian as "help."

  • Amid his countless other labors he preached the gospel to the Indians of the Nipmuck country.

    Woodstock | Clarence Winthrop Bowen
  • The Nipmuck Indians were a powerful tribe, consisting of many petty clans spread over the whole of the interior of Massachusetts.

    King Philip | John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
  • The Nipmuck tribe, then quite powerful, occupied the region now included in the southeast corner of Worcester county.

    King Philip | John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott