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Sitka|ˈsɪtkə|
[a. Tlingit sheet'ká (town of) Sitka, lit. ‘outer side of Baranof Island’.]
1. (A member of) a local group of Tlingit Indians formerly living principally in this North American Indian town. Also formerly, the variety of the Tlingit language spoken there. Also attrib. or as adj.
1829J. S. Green in Missionary Herald (1830) XXVI. 343 The Sitka Indians have built their village under the guns of the fort, so the Russians can easily defend them⁓selves from their depredations. Ibid. 344 The Sitka I think is peculiarly soft and musical. 1836[see Chilkat]. 1873Alaska Herald 9 July 4/2 The Hydahs, Chilcats, Tarkous, Ouchanons, and Sitkas participated. 1879W. G. Morris Public Service of Alaska 14 In the fall of 1877, a potlatch was given at Sitka by Jack, chief of the Sitkas, and it is estimated correctly he gave away on that occasion 500 blankets. 1910F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 582/2 Sitka,..a Tlingit tribe..on the w. coast of Baranof id., Alaska.
2. The name of the town, used attrib. or absol. to designate trees native to the region, as Sitka cedar, cypress, the Alaska cedar, Chamæcyparis nootkatensis, of the family Cupressaceæ; Sitka pine, spruce, a large conifer, Picea sitchensis, of the family Pinaceæ, or its light softwood timber.
1884C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 580 The most valuable tree of this region [sc. Alaska] is the Sitka cedar. Ibid. 178 Chamæcyparis Nutkaensis... Yellow Cypress. Sitka Cypress. 1884N.Y. Times 5 Oct. 5/2 The white spruce, or Sitka pine..grows to a height of 150 and 175 feet. 1895Funston & Coville in Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herbarium III. 328 The great bulk of this forest is composed of Sitka spruce. 1920Nature 29 July 692/1 The Sitka or silver spruce..might be called the aluminium of timbers. 1928Daily Mail 9 Aug. 13/4 The Duchy estates on Dartmoor, where it is hoped to plant 5,000 acres with sitka, Norway spruce, and Douglas fir. 1948Antioch Rev. Winter 48 This would be the first step toward cutting off the magnificent Douglas fir and Sitka pine from 300,000 acres. 1965G. Maxwell House of Elrig vi. 98 The needles of unthinned sitka. 1975W. Condry Pathway to Wild ix. 151 If that other western American, the Sitka spruce, now planted so multitudinously in Britain, were also going to be given the chance of making forests of giant trees..then conservationists might be less unhappy with it. 1977Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. 1. 39/2 (Advt.), This fine piano was made specially for us. Its quality features include..solid Sitka spruce soundboard. |