toggy

[miskotaki coat; perhaps influenced in early use by older cant toge(man), ult. < L toga cloak, loose coat]

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a calf-length greatcoat of skins, usually beaver, worn by Indians and traders in the Hudson Bay country. Also spelled tockey and toggey.

Quotations

1743

All the Indians was gone for their Winter Quarters Except some women who I Keep for to Dress beavr. for tockey's for their own use. . . .

1774, 1795

This day I gave each of the People a Dresst Moose Skin to mak them a Toggey for the Winter.

1821

I painted leather Toggy with Porcupine Epaulets and trimmed with the Otter Skin.

1957

Coat beaver--supple, greasy skins worn as "toggies" by Indians--were the kind preferred by hat makers.