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Pocasset

/pəˈkɑs.ət/

Pocasset noun: a (member of a) Native American tribe, the Fall River Wampanoag.

Noun

Pocasset (plural Pocassets or Pocasset)

  1. A (member of a) Native American tribe, the Fall River Wampanoag.
    • Among the patriots of that period, the name of a native of the Pocasset tribe must be enrolled. While the British army had possession of the island of Rhode Island, in 1777, General Prescott, the chief in command of that army, quartered at a ...1862, Orin Fowler, History of Fall River: With Notices of Freetown and Tiverton, page 26
    • Offering refuge to the Pocassets turned out to be disastrous for the Narragansetts. Shortly before the main body of Pocassets arrived among the Narragansetts, on July 15, 1675, the United Colonies had coerced four obscure Narragansetts […]2018, Pauline Turner Strong, Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics And Poetics Of Colonial American Captivity Narratives, Routledge, →ISBN, page 91

Proper noun

Pocasset

  1. A village and census-designated place in the town of Bourne, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
    • Railroad Station, Pocasset, Mass. THE POCASSET RAILROAD STATION. This postcard shows the Pocasset station and freight house on the Woods Hole branch . The station was originally called Wenaumet, and the Pocasset station was ...2003, Andrew T. Eldredge, Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 83
  2. A town in Grady County, Oklahoma.
  3. A former village in Rhode Island.

Forms of Pocasset

pluralPocassets
pluralPocasset

Origin of Pocasset

From Algonquian.

Questions about Pocasset

What does Pocasset mean?
Pocasset means a (member of a) Native American tribe, the Fall River Wampanoag.
What part of speech is Pocasset?
Pocasset can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Pocasset?
Pocasset is pronounced /pəˈkɑs.ət/.
What is the plural of Pocasset?
The plural of Pocasset is Pocassets.

Words near Pocasset in the dictionary

  1. Pocalpocal
  2. Pocalyko
  3. pocan
  4. Pocasangre
  5. Pocasangres
  6. Pocasset
  7. Pocassets
  8. Pocatalico
  9. Pocatello
  10. POCC
  11. POCCs

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