quincajou

[< Cdn F < Algonk.: Cree; cf. quickhatch]

Obs.

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the wolverine (def. la), a cunning robber of traps and caches, found in most parts of the Canadian forest.

See: carcajou(def. 1),wolverine(def. 1a)

Quotations

1760

As there is no species of animal, but that hath its natural enemy, besides man, that of the orignal is the quincajou.

1823

The rosomack or glutton of the north of Europe, is the same animal with the carcajou or quincajou of North America.