potlatched

Verb

potlatch (third-person singular simple present potlatches, present participle potlatching, simple past and past participle potlatched)

1. (transitive) To give; especially, to give as a gift during a potlatch ceremony.
   • He was a Chilkaht chief, and it being New Year's day, he had been to General Davis's house and "potlatched" (treated) to a bottle of whiskey.[1869 November 10, “[Accompanying Papers. Alaska.] Appendix M. Letter from William S. Dodge, Ex-mayor of Sitka, on Affairs in Alaska Generally.”, in Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Made...
2. (intransitive) To carry out or take part in a potlatch ceremony.
   • [page 85] In Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska, a native who has acquired a large share of this world's goods becomes at times stricken with a sort of ecstasy, when he feels it incumbent on himself to organize a sort of conscience fund on his own hook. He calls his neighbors together...1890, Alexander Badlam, “Totems and Shamans”, in The Wonders of Alaska, San Francisco, Calif.: The Bancroft Company, →OCLC, pages 85–86

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