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Definition of Mohawk
1. Noun. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living along the Mohawk River in New York State.
2. Noun. The Iroquoian language spoken by the Mohawk.
3. Noun. Haircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalp.
Definition of Mohawk
1. n. One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River.
Definition of Mohawk
1. Proper noun. An indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Quebec and eastern Ontario, the easternmost of the Iroquois Five Nations. ¹
2. Proper noun. The Iroquoian language spoken by these North American indigenous people. ¹
3. Noun. (''also'' '''mohawk''') A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair along the crest of the head kept long, and usually styled so as to stand straight up. ¹
4. Noun. (alternative capitalization of Mohawk) (hairstyle). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mohawk
1. a hairstyle marked by a stiff ridge of hair from front to back [n -S]
Medical Definition of Mohawk
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mohawk
Literary usage of Mohawk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in by Daythal Kendall, John F. Freeman (1982)
"mohawk (Iroquois) 4530. Adoption into Akwesasne mohawk Nation; July 1949. ...
Report on fieldwork carried out at the St. Regis mohawk Indian Reserve; 1969. ..."
2. America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive by James Silk Buckingham (1841)
"Romantic Beauty of the mohawk Valley.—Arrival and Stay at I'tica.—Stage Journey
from Utica to Syracuse.—Comparison of American and English Coaches. ..."
3. Life of Joseph Brant-Thayendanegea: Including the Border Wars of the by William Leete Stone (1838)
"THE active operations of the war, during the open months of the present year,
with the exception of the successive invasions of the mohawk Valley by Sir ..."
4. The Annals of Albany by Joel Munsell (1854)
"From Spafford's Gazetteer of Xew York, 1824. The mohawk ... The stream of the
mohawk is unequal, with'many breaks and rapids, and there are two Falls, ..."
5. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1892)
"If the mohawk was a marine estuary and had free connection with the Iroquois
basin on the level of its great beach, it seems natural to conclude that the ..."
6. Source Book for the Economic Geography of North America by Charles Carlyle Colby (1921)
"GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY OF THE
mohawk VALLEY' The mohawk Valley is one of the busiest manufacturing sections ..."
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