单词 | pogamoggan |
释义 | pogamoggann. North American. Now historical. A kind of club, typically of a single piece of hardwood with a ball-shaped head (often set with a sharp piece of stone or metal) or with a stone head, used esp. as a weapon by some North American Indians. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] sowelc893 treec893 cudgelc897 stinga900 bat?c1225 sticka1275 clubc1275 truncheon14.. bourdonc1325 bastona1400 warderera1400 plantc1400 kibble1411 playloomc1440 hurlbatc1450 ploykc1450 rung1491 libberlac1500 waster1533 batonc1550 macana1555 libbet1562 bastinado1574 crab-tree comb1593 tomahawkc1612 billeta1616 wiper1622 batoon1637 gibbeta1640 crab-bat1647 kibbo1688 Indian club1694 batterdasher1696 crab-stick1703 bloodwipea1705 bludgeon1730 kierie1731 oaken towel1739 crab1740 shillelagh1772 knobstick1783 pogamogganc1788 whirlbat1791 nulla-nulla1798 waddy1800 kevel1807 supple1815 mere1820 hurlet1825 knobkerrie1826 blackthorn1829 bastera1833 twig1842 leangle1845 alpeen1847 banger1849 billy1856 thwack-stave1857 clump1868 cosh1869 nulla1878 sap1899 waddy1899 blunt instrument1923 c1788 D. Thompson in G. Warkentin Discovering Radisson (1996) 235–8 They dashed at the Peegans, and with their stone Pukamoggan knocked them on the head. 1801 A. 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. c1804 P. Grant Sauteux Indians ii. 332 in L. R. Masson Les Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (1890) 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. 1814 M. Lewis & W. Clark Exped. Missouri I. 424 The Shoshonee warrior always fights on horseback... His common arms are the bow and arrow, a shield, a lance and a weapon called by the Chippeways..the poggamogga. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. 166 His po-ko-mo-kon (or war-club) was made of a round stone, tied up in a piece of rawhide, and attached to the end of a stick. 1893 Outing Oct. 10/1 Originally, no doubt, each action meant something, as the stealthy approach..the hurling of the tomahawk or pogamoggan, and so on. 1919 W. H. Holmes Handbk. Aboriginal Amer. Antiq. v. 110 A powerful weapon was a hafted hammer, probably of somewhat recent introduction, called pogamoggan by some of the tribes. 1925 R. 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. 1987 T. C. Boyle World's End (1988) i. xviii. 241 The weapon..was a Weckquaesgeek pogamoggan. It consisted of a flexible length of fruitwood, to the nether end of which a jagged five-pound ball of granite had been affixed. 1998 M. Blakely Comanche Dawn (1999) 24 Looking down the chasm, the boy saw his blind grandfather slinging his old pogamoggan—his war club—to ward off any foe who might come to finish him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1788 |
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