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Mackinaw   /mˈækənˌɔ/   Listen
Mackinaw

noun
1.
A short plaid coat made of made of thick woolen material.  Synonym: Mackinaw coat.
2.
A thick plaid blanket formerly used in the northwestern United States.  Synonym: Mackinaw blanket.
3.
A flat-bottomed boat used on upper Great Lakes.  Synonym: Mackinaw boat.
4.
A heavy woolen cloth heavily napped and felted, often with a plaid design.





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"Mackinaw" Quotes from Famous Books



... come!" Ba'tiste, waving his arms wildly, in spite of the stuffiness of his heavy mackinaw, and the broad belt which sank into layer after layer of clothing at his waist, came over the brow of the raise into camp, to seize Houston in his arms and dance him about, to lift him and literally throw him high upon ...
— The White Desert • Courtney Ryley Cooper
... to enter upon these lands, and stood in daily fear of being ordered off by United States troops. But their numbers steadily increased. At length the long expected order came. Major Davenport, Indian Agent at Rock Island, was ordered to go forward, and, with one company of infantry in two Mackinaw boats, commanded by Lieut. Beach, they landed near the mouth of Fever river (Galena) about the first of October. The Major came up to Galena with a letter from Col. George Davenport to the writer, to assist him in the discharge of his delicate duty. Word was sent to Lieut. ...
— Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk • Black Hawk
... came one Joseph Leiter, who tried to corner the wheat of the world. Chicago looked to Armour to punish the presumptuous one. And so Armour, already bowed with burdens, kept the Straits of Mackinaw open in midwinter, and delivered millions of bushels of real wheat for real money to meet the machinations of the bounding Leiter. Here, too, Armour was fighting for Chicago, to redeem, if possible, her good name in the eyes of ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen • Elbert Hubbard


Words linked to "Mackinaw" :   cover, coat, textile, Mackinaw coat, blanket, Mackinaw boat, fabric, cloth, boat, material


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