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ponask
[< Algonk.: Cree]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:poonask
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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v.
cook game or fish by splitting it and holding it on a stick or spit over an open fire.
See: ponasking
Quotations
1922
As we had no kettle . . . we were forced to "ponask" the fish on a pointed stick before a bright fire.
1934
She had, therefore, taken the heart, impaled it on a stick, and ponasked it as one would roast a duck.
1963
While the kettles would be boiling their meat, they [Indians] would be "Poonasking" strips of meat and delicacies like leg-bones in front of the fire. . . .