pekan
the fisher, Martes pennanti.
Origin of pekan
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How to use pekan in a sentence
Others call it the fisher, although it never fishes, while to the Indians it is the pekan—the killer-in-the-dark.
Wild Folk | Samuel ScovilleEven yet he had one advantage which no amount of courage or speed on the part of the pekan could have overcome.
Wild Folk | Samuel ScovilleSpite can catch a Squirrel in the tree tops, but pekan can catch Spite, and often does.
The Burgess Animal Book for Children | Thornton W. BurgessAfter feinting till the Kahk would not strike, the pekan began a new manceuvre.
Rolf In The Woods | Ernest Thompson SetonA third had caught a pekan; but the prisoner had been worried and torn to atoms.
The Story of the Trapper | A. C. Laut
British Dictionary definitions for pekan
/ (ˈpɛkən) /
another name for fisher (def. 2)
Origin of pekan
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