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‖ mussuck Anglo-Indian.|ˈmʌsək|
Forms: 7 mussocke, 9 musak, (? corruptly) muskatt, mussak, mussiek, mussoch, mussuck, musuk.
[Hindī maçak.]
A leather water-bag; usually, one made of the whole skin of a goat.
1610Finch in Purchas Pilgrims (1625) I. 427 A Mussocke of water being sold for a Rupia. 1802Misc. Ess. in Ann. Reg. 814/1 The troops from India brought Muskatts or leather bags to contain the water in. 1840A. Abbott in C. R. Low Afghan War (1879) 133 At Kooner I had a raft of fifty ‘mussucks’, very badly put together and with scarcely any timber on it. 1867A. L. Adams Wand. Nat. India 59 When the cooling effects of a mussiek of water refreshed us for our breakfast.
attrib.1895Westm. Gaz. 15 May 3/1 In the meantime Mussoch rafts, i.e., rafts supported by inflated goats' skins, were improvised to transport men from one bank to the other, worked by native boatmen. |