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Definition of Pekans
1. pekan [n] - See also: pekan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pekans
Literary usage of Pekans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1916)
"T 's a queer land." he said, Hitchin' his chair up close beside my bed— Says
Uncle Ned To me, a-layin' there broke out with measles: "Yes, sir! pekans ..."
2. The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and Region of the Great by Emma Helen Blair, Nicolas Perrot, Morrell Marston, Thomas Forsyth, Paul Radin, Gertrude M. Robertson (1911)
"hunting there are bears, elk, deer, wild-cats, beaver, some pekans™ and otters.
If they go to the west or toward the south they find there buffalo but few ..."
3. An Historical and Descriptive Account of British America: Comprehending by Hugh Murray (1839)
"It also not unfrequently attacks the Canada porcupine,—killing it by a bite in
the belly. Some thousands of pekans are annually procured in the countries ..."
4. The Peoples and Politics of the Far East: Travels and Studies in the British by Henry Norman (1895)
"... its thirty thousand Malays, its hundred and twenty thousand Chinese and all
its mixed mass of Bengalis and Bugis, Jawi pekans and ..."
5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"... weasels, ermines or stoats, minks, martens, pekans or fishers, otters, skunks,
Esquimaux and other dogs, wolves, foxes, lynxes, beavers, ..."
6. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"... pedicels as thick as the little finger, flowers shortly pedicelled shortly 4-
obed. Urtica superba & amoena, Wall. Cat. 4025, 4026. pekans, Porter. ..."
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