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pekan
[ pek-uhn ]
noun
- the fisher, Martes pennanti.
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Example Sentences
Others call it the fisher, although it never fishes, while to the Indians it is the pekan—the killer-in-the-dark.
Even yet he had one advantage which no amount of courage or speed on the part of the pekan could have overcome.
Spite can catch a Squirrel in the tree tops, but Pekan can catch Spite, and often does.
After feinting till the Kahk would not strike, the pekan began a new manceuvre.
A third had caught a pekan; but the prisoner had been worried and torn to atoms.
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