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Mackinaw|ˈmækɪnɔː|
Also Mackinac, Macinaw, Mackina, and with lower-case initial.
The name of an island in the strait between Lakes Huron and Michigan; occurring in the following collocations: Mackinaw blanket, also simply Mackinaw, a thick blanket, such as used to be distributed to the Indians of the North-west by the U.S. government; Mackinaw (boat), (a) a large flat-bottomed sharp-ended boat, used on the Great Lakes; (b) a schooner-rigged boat formerly used on the Great Lakes; Mackinaw coat (or jacket), a thick double-breasted jacket; also ellipt.; Mackinaw shirt, a plaid woollen shirt; Mackinaw skiff = Mackinaw (boat); Mackinaw trout, the lake-trout (see trout); also, a North American char, Cristivomer namaycush. Also absol., a heavy woollen cloth, now usu. with a plaid design; pl., garments made of this cloth.
1812J. G. Luttig Jrnl. Expedition Upper Missouri (1920) 54 The Mackina Boat took 5 hunters to the Island. 1822L. Cass Let. 4 Oct. in Wisconsin State Hist. Soc. Coll. (1911) XX. 287 The heavy Mackinac blankets are almost impervious to the rain, and are universally worn by the Indians in this quarter. 1826T. Flint Recoll. 102, I have seen a Mackinaw skiff, carrying five tons, which came from the lakes into the Chicago of Michigan. 1836in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. (1892) 2nd Ser. VII. 276 Covering, a cotton counterpane, a sheet.., besides my own great coats and green Mackinaw. 1840Southern Lit. Messenger VI. 604/1 The celebrated Mackinaw trout, so called after the town, near which they are found, is generally caught by the hook. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. (1844) I. x. 73 A mackinaw-boat, capable of carrying 50 or 100 casks. 1841Western Herald & Farmers' Mag. (Sandwich, Ontario) 31 Mar. 3/2 They have also a large assortment of blankets..of the real Mackinaw. 1842Southern Lit. Messenger VIII. 586/2 A party of six..had occasion..to ascend the Missouri, in a Mackinaw [boat], with the purpose of trading. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. iii. 22 My ‘Mackinaw’..makes my bed by night and my great coat on other occasions. 1872Mackinaw blanket [see blanket coat s.v. blanket n. 7]. 1876G. B. Goode Anim. Resources U.S. 41 Lure-fish used in taking Mackinaw trout. 1887Rep. U.S. Comm. Fisheries 24 At Duluth, Minnesota, the mackinaw boats average about 32 feet in length. 1900Atlantic Monthly LXXXV. 102/1 It is then the woodsman dons his Mackinaw jacket. 1901Longm. Mag. Jan. 218 Sedate family boats with three pairs of oars, mackinaws with white sails light in the fresh breeze. 1902J. London Daughter of Snows 316 He was interrupted by a warm-complexioned man clad in faded mackinaws. 1902S. E. White Blazed Trail 16 They all wore heavy blanket Mackinaw coats. Ibid. 375 A tall..individual dressed in a faded mackinaw and a limp slouch hat. 1912J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. 28 Mackinaw, a heavy woolen cloth much in favour among lumberjacks. A lumberjack speaks of his thick winter jacket as his mackinaw. 1916H. Kephart Camping & Woodcraft I. 147, I usually discard the sweater in favor of a mackinaw shirt. 1920S. Lewis Main St. 230 He had given up..wearing red mackinaws in lumber⁓camps. 1930J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel i. 101 A young man, his head and ears huddled into the collar of a mackinaw. 1938E. Hemingway Fifth Column (1939) 479 He wore..a mackinaw shirt. 1941L. D. Baldwin Keelboat Age 50 The Mackinaw boat in use on the Missouri was an adaptation of the flatboat and of the Mackinaw skiff. 1945R. W. Service Ploughman of Moon 157, I couched on the floor, lying on a buffalo-robe and wrapped in a mackinaw blanket. 1956J. S. Gowland Sikanaska Trail 44 A guard in plain clothes brought along my mackinaw jacket. 1961E. Hunter Mothers & Daughters i. 9 She had hardly ever seen him without his hooded Mackinaw. 1961Vancouver Sun 17 Aug. 23/1 The laker (mackinaw trout) is a record. Largest Canadian sport-caught lake char..is an 87 pounder. 1964Atlantic Advocate July 77/1 William M...was operating the mill and producing a large red and black check design for Mackinaw or cruiser cloth. 1968R. F. Adams Western Words (ed. 2) 187 The Mackinaw was a flat-bottomed boat with a pointed prow and a square stern... A large Mackinaw was as much as 50 or 60 feet long. 1971J. McDougall Parsons on Plains i. 1 My first recollections are of stumps, log heaps,..bateaux, Mackinaw boats. 1973D. MacKenzie Postscript to Dead Let. 9 He was..wearing a red-and-grey mackinaw over a shirt without a tie. 1973J. Ryder Trevayne (1974) xxxiv. 264 A man in a mackinaw coat and a fur cap.
Add: Hence ˈmackinawed a. rare, wearing a Mackinaw coat.
1960C. L. Cooper Scene vi. 159 The little cripple..pushed himself through the night... The tiny, twisted, childlike body..belied the wide mackinawed chest of a grown man. |