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Definition of Mallemucks
1. mallemuck [n] - See also: mallemuck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mallemucks
Literary usage of Mallemucks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection of Documents on Spitzbergen & Greenland: Comprising a by Adam White, Friedrich Martens, Isaac de La Peyrère, Edward Pellham (1855)
"... but they take good and bad together, as it happens ; ours bend themselves like
an ear of corn with the wind, which the mallemucks do not. ..."
2. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west Passage from by William Edward Parry (1824)
"... kittiwakes and mallemucks with their young became numerous, especially after
leaving Hudson ; Strait. In passing Cape Farewell we saw only one or two ..."
3. The Private Journal of Captain G. F. Lyon, of H. M. S. Hecla, During the by George Francis Lyon (1824)
"It is greedily devoured by the mallemucks. We made but little progress for four
days, and on the 21st found ourselves abreast of the Lower Savage Islands. ..."
4. The Private Journal of Captain G.F. Lyon, of H.M.S. Hecla, During the Recent by George Francis Lyon (1825)
"It is greedily devoured by the mallemucks. We made but little progress for four
days, and on the 21st found ourselves abreast of the Lower Savage Islands. ..."
5. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the by William Edward Parry (1824)
"... and soon afterwards kittiwakes and mallemucks with their young became numerous,
especially after leaving Hudson's Strait. In passing Cape Farewell we ..."
6. Greenland, the Adjacent Seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific by Bernard O'Reilly (1818)
"... character arising out of them, and passing to some distance at right angles :
mallemucks numerous ; burgomasters, a pair ; terns and kittiwakes around. ..."
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