Nipmuck

[ nip-muhk ]

noun

, plural Nip·mucks, (especially collectively) Nip·muck.

1. a member of an Algonquian Indian people living in the vicinity of Worcester, Mass.

Example Sentences

Last year, 19 tribes sent representatives, including the Miwok and Maidu, from central California; the Pawnee, from Kansas and Nebraska; the Powhatan, from Virginia; and the Nipmuck, from Massachusetts.

From Washington Post

Within what is now Grafton stood the Nipmuck Indian village of Hassanamesit.

From Project Gutenberg

A notorious Nipmuck chief, Monoco, called by the English One-eyed John, led this expedition.

From Project Gutenberg

In this fortress, within the territorial limits of the Nipmuck Indians, he also assembled a feeble train of women and children, the fragments of his slaughtered families.

From Project Gutenberg

The Nipmuck tribe, then quite powerful, occupied the region now included in the southeast corner of Worcester county.

From Project Gutenberg