| 释义 |
‖ poke-ˈloken, pokeˈlogan U.S.
[a. Odjibwa pokenogun.]
(See quots.)
1848Thoreau Maine W. (1894) 68 Now and then we passed what McCauslin called a pokelogan, an Indian term for what the drivers might have reason to call a poke-logs-in, an inlet that leads nowhere. Ibid. 132. 1855 Haliburton Nat. & Hum. Nat. II. 404 A poke-loken is a marshy place or stagnant pool connected with a river. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 20 The term pokeloken, an Indian term, signifying ‘marsh’,..is still largely used by the lumbermen in Maine, and..in the Northwest. |