pekan

American  

[pek-uhn] / ˈpɛk ən /

noun

1. the fisher, Martes pennanti.

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pekan British  

/ ˈpɛkən /

noun

1. another name for fisher

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Etymology

Origin of pekan

1710–20, < Canadian French pécan, pécant, pékan < Eastern Abenaki ( French spelling) pékané

Example Sentences

While mink and otter are about, the trapper will waste no steel-traps on pekan.

From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.

Then comes the Canada otter; the vison or minx; the clever little tree-loving raccoon; the American badger, differing from his European relative; and the pekan.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

In our natural histories it is described under the name of the pekan.

From Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by Gibson, William Hamilton

After feinting till the Kahk would not strike, the pekan began a new manceuvre.

From Rolf in the Woods by Seton, Ernest Thompson

The resort of the pekan is principally along the mountain ranges, never in the black spruce or flat barren country of the table land or to the north of it.

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