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▪ I. Mohawk|ˈməʊhɔːk|
Also 7–8 Mohock, Mohauk; and in various forms purporting to represent the native pronunciation, as 7 Mowha(w)ke, Mohaque, Mauquawog, Maquaw, Moqua, 7–8 Maqua.
[North American Indian. The spelling Mohock, q.v., is now appropriated to a transferred use that survives only Hist.]
1. One of a North American Indian people, formerly supposed to be cannibals.
The Mohawks originally inhabited the neighbourhood of the Mohawk River, in what is now the State of New York. They were the most powerful of the Six Nations or Iroquois.
1638P. Vincent True Relat. in Mass. Hist. Coll. Ser. iii. (1837) VI. 40 He went with forty men to the Mohocks, which are cruel, bloody cannibals. 1651Plymouth Col. Rec. (1855) II. 169 A request was made the last winter by a messenger from the French at Canada to assist them against the Mowhakes. 1676I. Mather K. Philip's War (1862) 168 The Indian affirmed, that those Indians who are known by the name of Mauquawogs (or Mohawks, i.e. Man eaters) had lately fallen upon Philip. 1693(title) A Narrative of an Attempt made by the French of Canada upon the Mohaque's Country. 1709S. Sewall Diary 9 Aug., Col. Hobbey's Regiment musters, and the Govr. orders the Maquas to be there and see them. 1778Wolcot (P. Pindar) Poetic Epist. Reviewers Wks. 1816 I. 3 With hatchets, scalping knives in shape of pens, To bid, like Mohocks, hapless authors die. 1819Rees Cycl. XXIII, Mohawks, an Indian Nation, acknowledged by the other tribes of the Six Nations to be the true old heads of the confederacy. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XXI. 114/2 The appearance of a single Mohawk on the hills was sufficient to throw into alarm the Indian villages in New England.
b. Mohawks' corn: a variety of maize.
1678Winthrop in Phil. Trans. XII. 1065 In the pure Northerly parts, they have a peculiar kind called Mohauks Corn, which though planted in June, will be ripe in season.
2. The language of the Mohawks.
1754Edwards Freed. Will iv. xiii. (1831) 404 The question is not whether what is said be..Latin, French, English or Mohawk. 1787Mohawk Prayer Bk. (title-p.), A new edition, to which is added the Gospel according to St. Mark, translated into Mohawk by Captn. Joseph Brant, an Indian of the Mohawk Nation. 1873R. Brown Races Mankind I. 243 Mr. Jones expresses his belief that in Canada there are only two distinct Indian languages—the Ojebway and the Mohawk.
¶3. Used by mistake for amok 1. Obs.
1772–84Cook's Voy. (1790) I. 288 Most of our readers must have heard of the Mohawks, and these [the Indians of Batavia] are the people who are so denominated, from a corruption of the word amock. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 439/1 If the officer takes one of these amocks or mohawks..alive, he has a considerable reward.
4. Skating. (See quot. 1892.)
1880Vandervell & Witham Figure-Skating (ed. 3) 80 This change..was last year introduced into the Club figures on ice, and christened by the name of ‘Mohawk’. 1892Monier-Williams, etc. Figure-Skating 60 A Mohawk is simply a step or stroke from any edge in one direction to the same edge on the other foot in an opposite direction... To make an Inside forward Mohawk, the skater must [etc.].
5. attrib. and adj., as in Mohawk language, Mohawk nation, etc. Mohawk tassel (see quot. 1891).
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Mohauks corn, This Mokauk kind [of maiz] need not bee sown before June. 1763Whitaker Serm. 30 June (1767) 44 This Joseph is a Chief of the Mohawk Nation. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) I. 562/1 He..spoke well the Mohock language. 1878(title) Mohawk minstrels' annual of dramas, dialogues, and drolleries. 1891Syd. Soc. Lex., Mohawk-tassel, the Eupatorium purpureum.
Add:[1.] c. Also mohawk. Chiefly U.S. A haircut, supposedly resembling that worn by Mohawk Indians, in which the head is shaved except for a brush-like strip of hair over the top of the head to the back of the neck. Cf. Mohican a. b.
1983Miami News 7 July 1/4 Mr. Elijah Akeem, a menacing black mountain beneath an intimidating mohawk. 1986New Yorker 2 June 25/2 Punks with stiff green Mohawks. 1992Time 27 July 67/3 He tattooed the Olympic rings on his hip and arrived at the '89 nationals with a double Mohawk—one side dyed black, the other white.
[5.] Mohawk haircut = sense *1 c above.
1984New Yorker 21 May 36/3 The Mohawk haircuts of the ice skaters. 1993Equinox (Camden East, Ontario) June 85/2, I catch up with..a brisk, dark-haired woman, who is busy settling her 10-year-old son and his new Mohawk haircut into one of the reclining chairs in the lounge.
▪ II. Mohawk, mohdi
see Mohock, Mahdi. |