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pogamoggan, n. N. Amer. Obs. exc. Hist.|ˌpɒgəˈmɒgən|
Also 9 pocomagan, pogamagan, pukamoggan; 20 pogamogan.
[a. Ojibwa pakama:kan club, lit. ‘(something) used for striking’.]
A kind of club, usu. consisting of a piece of stone or iron attached to a wooden handle, formerly used by some North American Indians.
1801A. Mackenzie Voy. from Montreal 37 The pogamagan is made of the horn of the rein-deer, the branches being all cut off except that which forms the extremity. c1804P. Grant in L. F. R. Masson Les Bourgeois (1890) II. 332 In war, they use the pocomagan..; it consists of a piece of wood, a foot and a half long, curved at one end, with a big heavy knob, in which is fixed a piece of long sharp iron. c1840D. Thompson Narr. Explorations W. Amer. 1784–1812 (1916) i. xxii. 330 They dashed at the Peeagans, and with their stone Pukamoggan knocked them on the head. 1893Outing Oct. 10/1 Originally, no doubt, each action meant something, as the stealthy approach..the hurling of the tomahawk or pogamoggan, and so on. 1925R. Frost Let. 21 July in Sel. Lett. (1964) vi. 315, I should have had a gun with me, but I hadn't. I hadn't even a pogamogan. |