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Definition of Nictates
1. nictate [v] - See also: nictate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nictates
Literary usage of Nictates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pony Tracks by Frederic Remington (1895)
"In the rooms you find pottery, stone nictates for grinding the corn, a fireplace,
a symbol of the Catholic Church, some scrapes, some rope, and buckskin. ..."
2. The native races of the Pacific states of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1875)
"... and the remains of nictates, mortars, earthen pots, and other utensils very
common. The metates were of a dark stone, and made somewhat after the ..."
3. Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians by Wilfred William Robbins, John Peabody Harrington, Barbara W. Freire-Marreco (1916)
"popularity of wheat flour, native and commercial, and the disinclination of the
women to grind maize on the nictates; also in common with the general ..."
4. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"23, 182S, SC,SG1 in goods sent from Tepic to S. Kiis for shipment, consisting of
woollen and cotton stuffs, rice, sugar, rebozos, nictates, and 23 pounds of ..."
5. Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Cliff Palace by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1911)
"STONE IMPLEMENTS The stone implements from Cliff Palace consist of axes, mauls,
paint grinders, pecking stones, nictates, balls, flakes, spear and arrow ..."
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