pekan
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pekan
1710–20, < Canadian French pécan, pécant, pékan < Eastern Abenaki ( French spelling) pékané
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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
It is the otchoek of the Crees, and the pekan of the Canadians.
From The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin
The resort of the pekan is principally along the mountain ranges, never in the black spruce or flat barren country of the table land or to the north of it.
From Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Martin Hunter
Besides, the pekan has many tricks akin to the wolverine.
From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut
After feinting till the Kahk would not strike, the pekan began a new manceuvre.
From Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton
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