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单词 pogamoggan
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pogamoggann.

Brit. /ˌpɒɡəˈmɒɡ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌpɑɡəˈmɑɡ(ə)n/
Forms: 1700s– pukamoggan, 1800s pocomagan, 1800s pogamagan, 1800s pogamoggon, 1800s poggamoggon, 1800s poggarmaggon, 1800s pokomokon, 1800s powmagan, 1800s puhguhmahgun, 1800s– pogamoggan, 1900s– pogamogan.
Origin: A borrowing from Ojibwa. Etymon: Ojibwa pakama:kan.
Etymology: < Ojibwa pakama:kan club, literally ‘tool for striking (a person)’.
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.
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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).
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