pekan
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pekan
1710–20, < Canadian French pécan, pécant, pékan < Eastern Abenaki ( French spelling) pékané
Example Sentences
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All the streams are frozen like rock; but the otter and pekan and mink and marten have not yet begun to forage at random across open field.
From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut
Besides, the pekan has many tricks akin to the wolverine.
From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut
It is known as the wood-shock or pekan, and is also called the black cat, and fisher.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
After feinting till the Kahk would not strike, the pekan began a new manceuvre.
From Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton
This is wuchak the fisher, or pekan, commonly called "the black cat"—who, in spite of his fishy name, hates water as cats hate it.
From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut
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