DCHP-3

musk-cow

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a female musk-ox (def. 1).

See: musk-ox(def. 1)

Quotations

1829
Having now entered on Hood's River . . . they got on tolerably well . . . the hunters ever and anon bringing in a deer [caribou] or musk-cow, which kept them above absolute want, though always on the brink of it.
1896
I had walked for, some time when I realized that, other than going south, I had not the remotest idea in what precise direction I was travelling, or just where that musk-cow lay.