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mishoon

mishoon noun: a dugout canoe.

Noun

mishoon (plural mishoons)

  1. A dugout canoe.
    • There were many mishoons beached there. We stepped ashore and at once heard the unholy commotion […]2011 May 3, Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing: A Novel, Penguin, →ISBN
    • The sky was a bruised purple, and a gusting wind enveloped them so that it was a struggle to keep the mishoon from getting swamped. The waves were immense, as big as English houses. They lifted the small boat upward[…]2014 August 15, Tim Weed, Will Poole's Island, namelos llc, →ISBN, page 32

Examples of mishoon in a sentence

  • […] and it's easy to imagine how this mishoon will take shape (Fig. 8.2).2019 October 31, Sidney I. Dobrin, Sean Morey, Mediating Nature: The Role of Technology in Ecological Literacy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 121:
  • They shifted in the mishoon, made room in the middle, and waved him on board, sitting ahead of Habbamock.2020 June 29, Karl H. Schumacher, The Village: Stories 1637-2097, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 12:

Forms of mishoon

pluralmishoons

Origin of mishoon

From Massachusett or a related Eastern Algonquian language.

Questions about mishoon

What does mishoon mean?
Mishoon means a dugout canoe.
How do you use mishoon in a sentence?
[…] and it's easy to imagine how this mishoon will take shape (Fig. 8.2).
What part of speech is mishoon?
Mishoon is a noun.
What is the plural of mishoon?
The plural of mishoon is mishoons.

Words near mishoon in the dictionary

  1. mishold
  2. misholding
  3. misholds
  4. Mishongnovi
  5. Mishongovi
  6. mishoon
  7. mishoons
  8. mishope
  9. mishoped
  10. mishopes
  11. mishoping

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