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muskeg Canadian.|ˈmʌskɛg|
Also muskeag.
[Cree Indian; corresp. to Odjibway mashkig, Abnaki mskakw.]
A kind of bog: see quots.
1865Visct. Milton & W. B. Cheadle N.W. Passage by Land 207 Muskegs—or level swamps—the surface of which is covered with a mossy crust five, or six inches in thickness, while a thick growth of pines and the fallen timber add to the difficulties of the road. 1886Times 24 Sept. 7 A ‘muskeg’ is a lake bearing on its surface a thick growth of decayed vegetable matter and peat, in layers made year after year. 1899Blackw. Mag. Mar. 541/2 A thick forest of tall pines with patches of bad muskeag, or marsh. 1904M. Roberts Bianca's Caprice 143 Beyond the Prairie lay the muskeg, the barren lands of Northern Canada.
Hence muˈskeggy a., abounding in muskegs.
1894Blackw. Mag. June 802 Muskeggy prairies of varying size. 1903A. C. P. Haggard Sporting Yarns 98 After a while this prairie..developed into muskeggy swamp. |