Nipmuck

[nip-muhk]

noun, plural Nip·mucks, (especially collectively) Nip·muck.

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

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

Examples from the Web for nipmuck

Historical Examples of nipmuck

Winslow, with the main body of the troops, advanced rapidly towards the Nipmuck country.
The Indian: On the Battle-Field and in the Wigwam
John Frost
Amid his countless other labors he preached the gospel to the Indians of the Nipmuck country.
Woodstock
Clarence Winthrop Bowen
Mendon, Mass., attacked by the Nipmuck Indians, and several persons killed.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology
Joel Munsell
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