pekan
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pekan
1710–20, < Canadian French pécan, pécant, pékan < Eastern Abenaki ( French spelling) pékané
Example Sentences
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Besides, the pekan has many tricks akin to the wolverine.
From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.
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 Hunter, Martin
In our natural histories it is described under the name of the pekan.
From Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by Gibson, William Hamilton
Such quiet waters are favourite resorts for beaver and mink and marten and pekan.
From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.
He recognises the trail of otter or pekan or mink.
From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.
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