Lexicographical Neighbors of Mocuck
Literary usage of Mocuck
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"If we add, finally, the term mocuck, which designates in the Abenaki dialect a
large, peculiarly-shaped cake of sugar, we shall have mentioned all the more ..."
2. The Canadian Handbook and Tourist's Guide: Giving a Description of Canadian by Henry Beaumont Small, John Taylor (1867)
"We strongly recommend every traveller in these parts to bring away at least one
mocuck of the sugar, both for his own special eating as well as for those of ..."
3. A Summer in the Wilderness: Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and by Charles Lanman (1847)
"Covered by a blanket, and pillowed by a mocuck of sugar, each Indian was asleep
upon his rush-mat. Parents, children, and friends, promiscuously disposed, ..."
4. A Summer in the Wilderness: Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and by Charles Lanman (1847)
"Covered by a blanket, and pillowed by a mocuck of sugar, each Indian was asleep
upon his rush-mat. Parents, children, and friends, promiscuously disposed, ..."
5. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"... tone of every inhabitant of the woods, from the twitter of the humming-bird
to the scream of the eagle. — Encycl. Americana. 2. See Nine-Killer. mocuck. ..."
6. The Russians of the South by Shirley Brooks (1854)
"Covered by a blanket, and pillowed by a mocuck of sugar, each Indian was asleep
upon his rush-mat. Parents, children, and friends, promiscuously disposed, ..."
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