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词汇 mocuck
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Definition of mocuck in English:

mocuck

(also mocock)
nounməʊˈkʌk
North American
  • A container resembling a basket made from birchbark.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The birchbank was cut into a pattern, folded, and sewn together with spruce root so that items like the mococks could hold solids and, when coated, liquids too.
    • The journey was made in mackinaws, open boats with a schooner rig; and the sugar was carried in mococks, containers made of birch bark, each holding from twenty to thirty pounds.
    • They were always giving us children little mococks [birchbark containers] of maple sugar.
    • They brought this sugar in bark vessels, called ‘mococks,’ holding from thirty to fifty pounds each.
    • The article is profusely eaten by all of every age, and a quantity is put up for sale in a species of boxes made from the white birch bark, which are called mococks or mokuk.

Origin

Late 18th century: from Ojibwa makak.

Definition of mocuck in US English:

mocuck

(also mocock)
nounməˈkək
North American
  • A container resembling a basket made from birchbark.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They brought this sugar in bark vessels, called ‘mococks,’ holding from thirty to fifty pounds each.
    • The birchbank was cut into a pattern, folded, and sewn together with spruce root so that items like the mococks could hold solids and, when coated, liquids too.
    • They were always giving us children little mococks [birchbark containers] of maple sugar.
    • The article is profusely eaten by all of every age, and a quantity is put up for sale in a species of boxes made from the white birch bark, which are called mococks or mokuk.
    • The journey was made in mackinaws, open boats with a schooner rig; and the sugar was carried in mococks, containers made of birch bark, each holding from twenty to thirty pounds.

Origin

Late 18th century: from Ojibwa makak.

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