pekan

[ pek-uhn ]

/ ˈpɛk ən /

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noun

the fisher, Martes pennanti.

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Origin of pekan

1710–20, Americanism;<Canadian French pécan, pécant, pékan<Eastern Abenaki (French spelling) pékané

Words nearby pekan

Peiraeus, Peiraievs, Peirce, pejoration, pejorative, pekan, peke, pekepoo, pekin, Peking, Peking duck

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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 Scoville
Even yet he had one advantage which no amount of courage or speed on the part of the pekan could have overcome.
Wild Folk|Samuel Scoville
Spite can catch a Squirrel in the tree tops, but Pekan can catch Spite, and often does.
The Burgess Animal Book for Children|Thornton W. Burgess
After feinting till the Kahk would not strike, the pekan began a new manceuvre.
Rolf In The Woods|Ernest Thompson Seton

A 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

pekan

/ (ˈpɛkən) /

noun

another name for fisher (def. 2)

Word Origin for pekan

C18: from Canadian French pékan, of Algonquian origin; compare Abnaki pékané

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