mishoon

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English

Etymology

From Massachusett or a related Eastern Algonquian language.

Noun

mishoon (plural mishoons)

  1. A dugout canoe.
    • 2011 May 3, Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing: A Novel, Penguin, →ISBN:
      There were many mishoons beached there. We stepped ashore and at once heard the unholy commotion []
    • 2014 August 15, Tim Weed, Will Poole's Island, namelos llc, →ISBN, page 32:
      The sky was a bruised purple, and a gusting wind enveloped them so that it was a struggle to keep the mishoon from getting swamped. The waves were immense, as big as English houses. They lifted the small boat upward []
    • 2019 October 31, Sidney I. Dobrin, Sean Morey, Mediating Nature: The Role of Technology in Ecological Literacy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 121:
      [] and it's easy to imagine how this mishoon will take shape (Fig. 8.2). Two more mishoonash are mostly sunken into the water at the edge of the Eel River Pond a few steps away; Kerri notes that because it can still freeze, []
    • 2020 June 29, Karl H. Schumacher, The Village: Stories 1637-2097, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 12:
      They shifted in the mishoon, made room in the middle, and waved him on board, sitting ahead of Habbamock. There was only a single exchange crossing the marsh. “Why K-lib here?” Habbamock asked from behind him in the mishoon.