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1. Adirondack, n. and adj. View full entry 1699
...A member of the Algonquin people formerly living along the Ottawa River and its tributaries, in Ontario and Quebec. Also occas. with the and pl. concord: this people...
2. cheechako, n. View full entry 1897
...A newly-arrived immigrant in the mining districts of north-western North America; a tenderfoot, greenhorn....
3. crab, n.3 View full entry 1769
...Corruption of carap, the name of a South American tree, Carapa guianensis, used in compounds: as crab-nutcrab-oilalso carap oilcrab-tree, crab-wood...
4. ichu, n. View full entry 1891
...An alpine grass, Stipa ichu, growing on the uplands of the Andes, where it is used for fodder and thatching....
5. moose, n.2 View full entry 1614
...The elk, Alces alces....
6. troolie, n. View full entry 1769
...A name for the immense entire leaf of the bussu-palm (Manicaria saccifera), often thirty feet in length and four or five in breadth, used in the lower Amazon region for...
7. wanigan, n. View full entry 1848
...A receptacle for small supplies or a reserve stock; esp., a boat or a chest containing outfit supplies for a lumber camp....
