clattawa

present singular third person clattawas · participle present clattawa-ing · participle past clattawa-ed · past clattawa-ed · alternative klatawaw · alternative klatawa

1. obsoleterarewest coast North America: British Columbia to OregonTo go; depart, leave.First known use mid- to late 19th c.

   The Chilcootens told him that he had better clattawa and gave him a knife, to defend himself in case he came across any white men.

   1864, Edwin Mosely, “A Survivor's Account”, in the Daily Chronicle

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   From the above, our friends in the States will readily see that we are not only blessed with a rich soil, and superior mineral wealth, but a climate infinitely superior to that of their present abode. Pack up, therefore, ye frozen tillicums and clatawau over to Oregon.

   1850, Working Farmer, vol. 1-4, page 175

   Tenas George’s Statement[...]The Indian who shot him had a scar on one cheek. A young Chilcoaten, who had been a slave, (Chraychanuru, also called Bob, one of the six) told him then to klatawaw [go] as quickly as possible, and gave him a knife to defend himself.

   1864, “Origin of the Massacre”, in the Daily Chronicle

   If you want to have a splendid time, go to the sociable at Prof. Powell’s to-morrow night. And don’t forget that Meriar has her hair banged and is ready to clattawa with you.

   1880 December 3, Albany Register, page 3, column 3

   The midday echoes reply drowsily, the solitary horseman curses and “clattawa’s” up the road as though suddenly impressed with the idea that somebody is hooking his dinner over the hill[...]

   1887, John Harrison Mills, chapter 10, in Chronicles of the Twenty-first Regiment New York State Volunteers, page 204

   [T]hey were attacked by their northern enemies, who shot two or three while the rest klatawaw-ed with all the hyak (hurry) possible and hid themselves.

   1899, Emily Inez Denny, Blazing the Way: Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound and Other Pioneers, page 414