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tikinagan
[< Algonk.: Cree tikinakun]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a thin, rectangular board to which a moss bag is fastened and in which infants are carried.
This word has been spelled in many ways, most of which are entered in the dictionary as cross-references.
Quotations
1860
In fact, you may roll an Indian tikinagan over as much as you please, but the child cannot be injured.
1941
Fished and caught nothing;
While the young chieftain
Tugged at her breasts
Or slept in the lacings
Of the warm tickanegan.
While the young chieftain
Tugged at her breasts
Or slept in the lacings
Of the warm tickanegan.
1957
But snowshoes of birch wood and babiche, tikinaguns (cradle boards) and dry tanned moccasins will be seen for quite a while yet.
1965
Four hundred men, women and children, including babies in tiknagans [sic] on their mothers' backs, moved through the neon-lighted streets of Kenora. . . .