Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of nokehick.
Mic-ki-nac sat on a fallen tree, / And of savory no-ke-hike partook, [...]
1844, W[illia]m H[owe] C[uyler] Hosmer, “Canto Fourth. The Bower.”, in Yonnondio, or Warriors of the Genesee: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century, New York, N.Y.: Wiley & Putnam; Rochester, N.Y.: D. M. Dewey, […], →OCLC, stanza XXX, page 1152 more examples
Some of their modes of cookery have been adopted, and are retained. [...] [T]heir nokehike, which is corn parched and pounded, their ſuckataſh, which is a mixture of corn and beans boiled, are much uſed, and very palatable.
1792, Jeremy Belknap, “Monuments and Relics of the Indians”, in The History of New-Hampshire. […], volume III, Boston, Mass.: […] Belknap and Young, […], →OCLC, pages 92–93This lordly dish is made of oak, and will contain about six quarts, which was indeed a goodly quantity, whether of nokehike, appoon, nausamp, or sukketash, for the breakfast of his tawny majesty.
1814, Timothy Alden, “551. A Trophy from the Wigwam of King Philip, when He was Slain, in 1676, by —— Richard. […]”, in A Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions with Occasional Notes, pentade I, volume III, New York, N.Y.: S. Marks, […], →OCLC, page 165
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