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Pequot, n. and a.|ˈpiːkwɒt|
Also Pecoate, Pequod, Pequoitt.
[prob. f. native word paquatanog destroyers.]
A. n.
a. An Indian of an Algonquian people of southern New England.
b. The language spoken by the Pequots.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Pequot Indians, or the language spoken by them.
1631in New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1834) IV. 226 Wee heare their numbers exceed any but the Pecoates and Nawagansets. 1637Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1850) I. 10 To parle w[i]th the bay aboute o[u]r settinge downe in the Pequoitt Countrey. 1654E. Johnson Hist. New-England ii. vi. 109 The English sought by all means to keepe these [fighting men] at least from confederating with the Pequods. 1714S. Sewall Diary (1882) III. 12 Commissioners met to give Govr. Sattonstall an Opportunity to vindicate himself relating to the Pequot and Mohegan Indians. 1849O. W. Holmes Poems 256 He heard the Pequot's ringing whoop. 1851H. Melville Moby Dick I. xvi. 110 Pequod..was the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians, now extinct as the ancient Medes. 1871C. M. Yonge Pioneers & Founders i. 6 The Pequot Indians, a tall, well-proportioned, and active tribe, belonging to the great Iroquois nation. Ibid. 8 The Pequots were..at war with the Dutch. 1903Prince & Speck in Amer. Anthropologist V. 195 Their language, of course, remained Pequot, a dialect which shows a..striking kinship..with the present speech of the Canadian Abenakis. 1945C. M. Webster Town Meeting Country 11 The Pequots were probably the bravest and most ferocious of all the New England tribes. 1979Arizona Daily Star 1 Apr. a 2/2 Among their guests is to be John Hamilton, Chief Rolling Cloud of the Mohegan and Pequot American Indian tribes. |