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Definition of mocuck in English: mocuck(also mocock) nounməʊˈkʌk North American A container resembling a basket made from birchbark. Example sentencesExamples - The birchbank was cut into a pattern, folded, and sewn together with spruce root so that items like the mococks could hold solids and, when coated, liquids too.
- The journey was made in mackinaws, open boats with a schooner rig; and the sugar was carried in mococks, containers made of birch bark, each holding from twenty to thirty pounds.
- They were always giving us children little mococks [birchbark containers] of maple sugar.
- They brought this sugar in bark vessels, called ‘mococks,’ holding from thirty to fifty pounds each.
- The article is profusely eaten by all of every age, and a quantity is put up for sale in a species of boxes made from the white birch bark, which are called mococks or mokuk.
OriginLate 18th century: from Ojibwa makak. Definition of mocuck in US English: mocuck(also mocock) nounməˈkək North American A container resembling a basket made from birchbark. Example sentencesExamples - They brought this sugar in bark vessels, called ‘mococks,’ holding from thirty to fifty pounds each.
- The birchbank was cut into a pattern, folded, and sewn together with spruce root so that items like the mococks could hold solids and, when coated, liquids too.
- They were always giving us children little mococks [birchbark containers] of maple sugar.
- The article is profusely eaten by all of every age, and a quantity is put up for sale in a species of boxes made from the white birch bark, which are called mococks or mokuk.
- The journey was made in mackinaws, open boats with a schooner rig; and the sugar was carried in mococks, containers made of birch bark, each holding from twenty to thirty pounds.
OriginLate 18th century: from Ojibwa makak. |