单词 | tikinagan |
释义 | tikinagann. North American. Among some Algonquian peoples: a baby carrier and cradle made from a thin, rectangular board (to which the baby is strapped) with a support for the baby's feet and (typically) a wooden bow to protect its head; = cradle-board n. at cradle n. Compounds 2. A tikinagan can be carried on one's back, or placed somewhere with the baby in an upright position. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [noun] > carrying of children > device for tikinagan1844 sling1856 1844 H. R. Schoolcraft Onéota ii. 79 Next day she swung her baby to sleep in its tikenágun, or cradle. 1860 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. J. G. Kohl Kitchi-Gami 7 You may roll an Indian tikinagan over as much as you please, but the child cannot be injured. 1905 D. C. Scott New World Lyrics & Ballads 15 While the young chieftain Tugged at her breasts, Or slept in the lacings Of the warm tikanagan. 1959 F. Bodsworth Strange One iii. xxiii. 140 There was a baby strapped in its cradlelike tikinagun on her back. 1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 1 May w7 (caption) Custom of swaddling infant and carrying it in a tihkinakan may be one cause of hip deformities in Indians. 2001 L. Erdrich Last Rep. Miracles at Little No Horse x. 184 She was easy to please; anyone could rock her to sleep in her tikinagan of ash and cedar. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1844 |
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