Nanticoke

¹

[ nan-ti-kohk ]

noun

, plural Nan·ti·cokes, (especially collectively) Nan·ti·coke

1. a member of an Indigenous North American people who have traditionally inhabited Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
2. the Algonquian language of the Nanticoke.
3. a member of a group of people of southern Delaware with mixed white, Black, and Indigenous ancestry.

Nanticoke

²

[ nan-ti-kohk -koh ]

noun

1. a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Erie.
2. a city in E Pennsylvania.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Nanticoke¹

First recorded in 1640–50; from Nanticoke (an Eastern Algonquian language), the name of a place once inhabited by the tribe

Example Sentences

This afternoon, 31st, at Nanticoke, the mob stopped all the pumps at the mines.

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But twenty years ago there was no busier mine than the Dryden from Carbondale to Nanticoke.

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His shape was odd and singular, beyond anything the Nanticoke had ever seen.

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More she would have said, but the Nanticoke caught her gently in his arms, preventing her slight screams with the kiss of love.

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First one contrived to put forth her little hand or foot; then a head became visible; still the Nanticoke affected to see neither.

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