DCHP-3

ruhiggan

[< Algonk.]
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

dried meat, beaten into a pulpy mass.

Quotations

1743
Accordingly being willing to Satisfy my Curiosity, I sitts down upon a Bundle of Ruhiggan which was handed to me; when Looking round me I see them all sett to work, some a picking, & some a trussing of Geese.
1754
. . . they have neither victuals nor drink, Except a Little Ruhigan, they are very Lazey, not one stick of wood anigh their house. . . .