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caribou, cariboo|ˈkærɪbuː, -ˈbuː|
Also carr-.
[Canadian F. caribou: prob. of native American origin.]
a. The North American Reindeer.
c1665P. E. Radisson Voyages (1885) 202 We killed severall..Carriboucks. 1672J. Josselyn New Eng. Rarities 20 The Maccarib, Caribo, or Pohano, a kind of Deer. 1703tr. La Hontan's Voy. N.-Amer. I. 59 Harts and Caribous are kill'd both in Summer and Winter. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. ii. v. 336 The North Americans also hunt the rein-deer under the name of the caribou. 1848Thoreau Maine W. i. (1864) 11 Deer and carribou, or reindeer, are taken here in the winter. 1879Ld. Dunraven in 19th C. July 63 The American Cariboo is identical with the reindeer of Europe.
b. attrib. and Comb. Caribou Eskimo, one of a group of Eskimos living in the Barren Grounds of N. Canada and depending on caribou; caribou moss, reindeer moss.
1779in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. XLIX. 112 Sold..82 caribou skins, at {pstlg}6 10. 0. 1860H. Y. Hind Narr. Canad. Red River Exped. I. v. 110 The general surface was either bare..or else thickly covered with cariboo moss and tripe de roche. 1887Harper's Mag. Feb. 458/2 The hunter..covers his feet with..a pair of moose or caribou shanks, with the hair outside. 1903S. E. White Conjuror's House viii. 94 She felt..the hunger that yet could not stomach the..hairy, black caribou meat. 1904― Silent Places xiii. 137 The foundation he made of caribou moss. 1929K. B. Smith Caribou Eskimos I. 9 ‘Caribou Eskimo’ is the name which the Fifth Thule Expedition has attached to a group of Eskimo tribes in the southern part of the extensive Barren Grounds west of Hudson Bay. 1936Discovery July 200/2 According to his view the eastern or Caribou Eskimo are neither original nor degenerate, but represent a fusion of Eskimo and Indian cultures. 1963Times 25 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. xvi/5 The Chipewyan Indians—the greatest of the caribou-eating tribes. |