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‖ pocosin, poquosin Amer.|pəˈkəʊsɪn|
Also 7 pocosen, poquosin, -on, (8 percoarson, -koson), 8–9 poc(c)oson, 9 pocasan.
[Algonquin poquosin.
According to W. W. Tooker in Amer. Anthropologist Jan. 1899 (N.S.) I. 162–170, meaning ‘at or near the opening out or widening’, f. poquo to break, open out, widen + (e)s dimin. + -in(g) locative suffix. ‘The application of the term therefore..was to indicate or describe a locality where water ‘backed up’ in spring freshets, or in rainy seasons, and which by reason of [this] became more or less marshy or boggy.’ As the name of a river in Virginia, the word is found as early as 1635.]
In Southern U.S., A tract of low swampy ground, usually wooded; a marsh, a swamp.
1634in Amer. Speech (1940) XV. 296/2 From that runn along the side of the Pocoson or great Otter pond soe called. 1681Rec. Court of New Castle on Delaware (1904) 504, 74 perches to a Corner marked spannish oake standing neare a pocosen. 1709J. Lawson Hist. Carolina 26 The Swamp I now spoke of, is not a miry Bog,..but you go down to it thro' a steep Bank, at the Foot of which, begins this Valley... The Land in this Percoarson, or Valley, being extraordinary rich, and the Runs of Water well stor'd with Fowl. Ibid. 57 We lay in a rich Perkoson, or low Ground, that was hard⁓by a Creek, and good dry Land. 1711in Virginia Mag. Hist. & Biogr. V. (1897) July 9 The rest carried the horses 3 mile through a terribly myery Pocoson to a verry great marsh to a River side. 1760Washington Writ. (1889) II. 163 Black mould taken out of the Pocoson on the creek side. 1784J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S. I. 106 Rode along upon a wooden causeway, through a marsh, which is here [North Carolina] called a poccoson. 1875W. C. Kerr Rep. of the Geol. Survey of N. Carolina I. 15 There is a large aggregate of territory (between 3,000 and 4,000 square miles), mostly in the counties bordering on the seas and the sounds, known as Swamp Lands. They are locally designated as ‘dismals’ or ‘pocosins’, of which the great Dismal Swamp on the borders of North Carolina and Virginia is a good type. 1895Educat. Rev. Nov. 358 The various stages of sound, lagoon, salt marsh, and pocoson are too familiar. |