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Nanticoke
1[ nan-ti-kohk ]
noun
, plural Nan·ti·cokes, (especially collectively) Nan·ti·coke
- a member of an Indigenous North American people who have traditionally inhabited Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
- the Algonquian language of the Nanticoke.
- a member of a group of people of southern Delaware with mixed white, Black, and Indigenous ancestry.
Nanticoke
2[ nan-ti-kohk -koh ]
noun
- a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Erie.
- a city in E Pennsylvania.
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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
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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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