musquash

American  

[muhs-kwosh] / ˈmʌs kwɒʃ /

noun

1. Chiefly British. the fur of the muskrat.

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musquash British  

/ ˈmʌskwɒʃ /

noun

1. another name for muskrat , used esp to refer to its fur

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Etymology

Origin of musquash

1770–80, < Massachusett cognate of Western Abenaki mòskwas (perhaps equivalent to Proto-Algonquian *mo·ŝk- bobbing above the surface of the water + *-exkwe· head + derivational elements, i.e., the one whose head bobs above the water)

Example Sentences

In Great Britain a musquash pelt is worth only about a shilling.

From Time Magazine Archive

Because did we of the fraternity of hunters pause to consider, and reason, we must see that a musquash ought not, and cannot be different from a beaver.

From Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Hunter, Martin

Just before night we saw a musquash, the only one we saw in this voyage, swimming downward on the opposite side of the stream.

From Canoeing in the wilderness by Thoreau, Henry David

"The musquash is easier to hunt," said Hawk Eye.

From Hawk Eye by Cory, David

He did not like him, and declared that all he said "was not worth talk about a musquash."

From Canoeing in the wilderness by Thoreau, Henry David