pekan

American  

[pek-uhn] / ˈpɛk ən /

noun

1. the fisher, Martes pennanti.

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pekan British  

/ ˈpɛkən /

noun

1. another name for fisher

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Etymology

Origin of pekan

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

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Example Sentences

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pekan

Of otter and mink and pekan there will be plenty, for these fish-eaters are most easily taken before midwinter frost has frozen the streams solid.

From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut

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 Martin Hunter

While mink and otter are about, the trapper will waste no steel-traps on pekan.

From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut

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 William Hamilton Gibson

Then comes the Canada otter; the vison or minx; the clever little tree-loving raccoon; the American badger, differing from his European relative; and the pekan.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston

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