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mussucks

mussucks is the plural of mussuck.

Meaning of mussuck

Noun

mussuck (plural mussucks)

  1. (India, Pakistan, historical) an inflated skin-bag for water, variously said to be made from goats, from cows or from dogs, often by bheesties.
    • In that form of sunstroke where the person is struck down suddenly by a hot sun, the patient should be removed into the shade, and the douche of cold water being allowed to fall in a stream on the head and body, from a pump (or, as in India, from the mussuck, or other similar contrivance should be...1876 Joseph Fayrer, The London Medical Record vol. 4 page 183 = The Practitioner vol. 16 page 183

Questions about mussucks

What is mussucks the plural of?
Mussucks is the plural of mussuck.

Words near mussucks in the dictionary

  1. Mussorgskian
  2. Mussorgsky
  3. Mussorgskyan
  4. Mussos
  5. mussuck
  6. mussucks
  7. Mussulman
  8. Mussulmanic
  9. Mussulmanish
  10. Mussulmanism
  11. Mussulmans

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