pekan

[ pek-uhn ]

noun
  1. the fisher, Martes pennanti.

Origin of pekan

1
1710–20, Americanism;<Canadian French pécan, pécant, pékan<Eastern Abenaki (French spelling) pékané

Words Nearby 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 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.

  • 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.

British Dictionary definitions for pekan

pekan

/ (ˈpɛkən) /


noun
  1. another name for fisher (def. 2)

Origin of pekan

1
C18: from Canadian French pékan, of Algonquian origin; compare Abnaki pékané

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