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proper noun

Mohawk n.

(Ethnol.) One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River.

One of certain ruffians who infested the streets of London in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians. (Slang)

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Etymology of 'Mohawk'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mohawk" Quotes from Famous Books

... ride! And now their ranks are forming,— A rush, and up the Dartmouth's side The Mohawk band is swarming! See the fierce natives! What a glimpse Of paint and fur and feather, As all at once the full-grown imps Light on the deck together! A scarf the pigtail's secret keeps, A blanket hides the breeches,— And out the cursed cargo ...

— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... the Apollo Belvedere, he exclaimed: "A young Mohawk warrior!" to the disgust of every one who heard him, but he meant to compliment the noblest of forms. Europeans did not know how magnificent a figure the "young Mohawk warrior" could be; ...

— Pictures Every Child Should Know • Dolores Bacon

... advice of their savage allies they generally met with disaster. This advice was valuable, not only because the Indians knew the country, but because their strategy was of a high order. The reader may have seen at Fort George the statue of Sir William Johnson and King Hendrix, the Mohawk chief. The latter holds in his hand a bundle of sticks. Tradition says that the chief was arguing against the division of their forces to meet the approaching French army, saying: "If we are to fight, we are too few: if we are to die, ...

— The Indian Today - The Past and Future of the First American • Charles A. Eastman

... less descent, a deposit uniformly takes place, forming flats or intervals, as they are styled in the United States, of which we have such beautiful instances in the valleys of the Connecticut and Mohawk, and that part of the Hudson near Albany; again, where rivers meet the sea, they are interrupted in their course by the rise of the tides of the ocean, and here again deposits take place, sometimes forming shoals and banks in the ocean itself; ...

— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various

... York travelers will find it worth while to make a journey to the Mohawk Valley, which is one of the most ...

— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand

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