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mocock
[< Algonk.: Ojibwa makak]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a box or container made of birchbark, often used to hold maple sugar, wild rice, berries, etc.
Quotations
1748
[They now have by Trade from the Factories Brass Kettles by which they boil, otherwise they make use of Nockins, which are of Birch-Bark, take a square Piece, slash it at the four Corners some Way in, then there are four Sides which they can set up, and they sew together with a Rim, round the Top they put an Edge of Porcupine Quills, these they make of various Sizes.]
1779
We were reduced to a few fish and some wild rice, or menomen (which are kept in muccucks, or bark boxes), to support myself and seventeen men.
1804
Margoe sent a Mocock Sugar 70 lb Net.
1859
They make their mohcocks, or kettles, of birch-bark, in which they cook fish and game.
1923
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.
1951
There was a small makuk of sugar also. . . .