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ˈweequashing, vbl. n. U.S.
Also wigwassing.
[f. Algonkin wigwas birch-bark (canoe) + -ing1.]
The spearing of eels or fish from a canoe by torchlight.
1888Goode Amer. Fishes 436 Vast quantities [of suckers] are taken..by spearing by torchlight or ‘weequashing’. 1902A. F. Chamberlain in Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore Oct. 267 The word weequashing, or wigwassing, would seem to be derived..from wigwas, a widespread Algonkian..term for ‘birch bark’, the immediate source of the word being Passamaquoddy or Micmac. |