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单词 mackinaw
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mackinawn.

Brit. /ˈmakᵻnɔː/, U.S. /ˈmækəˌnɔ/
Forms: 1800s mackina, 1800s mackinac, 1800s– mackinaw, 1900s– machinaw; also macinaw Also with capital initial.
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mackinaw.
Etymology: < Mackinaw, representing the 19th- and 20th-cent. pronunciation (compare Arkansas n.) of Mackinac, the name of an island in the strait between Lakes Huron and Michigan, of the strait itself, and of an important early trading post situated there. The name is originally Canadian French, < the last three syllables of earlier michilimackinac < Ojibwa miššilimaahkinaank at the territory of the Mishinimaki (an extinct division of the Ojibwa). See Dict. Canad. for an influential earlier etymology.
North American.
I. Compounds.
1. mackinaw boat n. now chiefly historical (a) a large flat-bottomed sharp-ended cargo boat, formerly used esp. on the Great Lakes and the Missouri; (b) a schooner-rigged boat formerly used on the Great Lakes. Also mackinaw skiff.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > types of
sedge-boat1336
shout1395
scout1419
pink1471
punt-boatc1500
palander1524
pram1531
punt1556
bark1598
sword-pink1614
pont1631
schuit1666
pontoon1681
bateau1711
battoe1711
flight1769
scow1780
keel-boat1786
ferry flat1805
ark1809
panga1811
mackinaw boat1812
mudboat1824
pinkie1840
mackinaw1842
sharpie1860
sculling float1874
pass-boat1875
sled1884
scow sloop1885
sharp1891
johnboat1894
ballahoo1902
pram1929
goelette1948
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > with specific rig > fore and aft rigged > schooner > schooner-rigged vessels
schooner-frigate1799
mackinaw boat1812
ballahoo1815
schooner barge1819
Jack1845
schooner-yacht1876
bugeye1877
jackass schooner1879
buckeye1885
butterman1885
schooner yawl1889
ram1904
Tancook schooner1933
goelette1948
1812 J. C. Luttig Jrnl. Exped. Upper Missouri 17 July (1920) 54 The Mackina Boat took 5 hunters to the Island.
1826 T. Flint Recoll. Last Ten Years 102 I have seen a Mackinaw skiff, carrying five tons, which came from the lakes into the Chicago of Michigan.
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. x. 73 A mackinaw-boat, capable of carrying fifty or a hundred casks.
1887 Rep. U.S. Comm. Fisheries 24 At Duluth, Minnesota, the mackinaw boats average about 32 feet in length.
1903 S. E. White Forest 130 Wharves..over whose edges peeped the double masts of Mackinaw boats, spoke of a fishing community.
1941 L. D. Baldwin Keelboat Age 50 The Mackinaw boat in use on the Missouri was an adaptation of the flatboat and of the Mackinaw skiff.
2000 M. B. Bogue Fishing Great Lakes i. iii. 41 He noted that the Mackinaw boat had been in use longer and had a better safety record on the upper lakes than any other.
2.
a. mackinaw blanket n. a thick blanket, such as used to be distributed to north-western American Indians by the U.S. government.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > blanket
whittlec900
langel1324
blanket1346
caddow1579
cad1581
rug1591
cambal1599
cumbly1696
bed-blanket1701
kombaars1812
mackinaw blanket1822
blankie1921
1822 L. Cass Let. 4 Oct. in Wisconsin State Hist. Soc. Coll. (1911) XX. 287 The heavy Mackinac blankets are almost impervious to the rain, and are universally worn by the Indians in this quarter.
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 194 Mackinaw blankets..served not only for beds but also for overcoats.
1960 B. Grant Amer. Indians Yesterday & Today (rev. ed.) 191 A heavy blanket is known as a machinaw [sic] blanket.
b. mackinaw coat n. a thick (usually double-breasted) coat or jacket. Also mackinaw jacket.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jacket > thick
mackinaw1894
mackinaw coat1899
donkey jacket1929
1899 J. London in Overland Monthly 33 37 Clasped outside his Mackinaw jacket, a beaded belt held two large Colt's revolvers and a hunting-knife.
1900 Overland Monthly 35 410 Among them was only one respectable article of wearing apparel—a mackinaw coat.
1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail i. iii. 16 They all wore heavy blanket mackinaw coats.
1956 J. S. Gowland Sikanaska Trail 44 A guard in plain clothes brought along my mackinaw jacket.
1973 ‘J. Ryder’ Trevayne (1974) xxxiv. 264 A man in a mackinaw coat and a fur cap.
1985 R. Davies What's bred in Bone (1986) ii. 73 He was happy in his corduroy knickerbockers and a mackinaw coat.
1992–3 Newfoundland Q. Winter 19/2 The youngest son reached into a faded mackinaw jacket, stained with residue of his livelihood.
c. mackinaw shirt n. a shirt made of mackinaw (sense 4b).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > of specific material
hair-shirt1737
hunting-shirt1775
hickory shirt1825
narp1839
regatta shirt1840
boiled shirt1853
shirt1867
undergo1876
Oxford shirt1881
mackinaw shirt1916
Oxford1927
Aertex shirt1937
1916 H. Kephart Camping & Woodcraft I. 147 I usually discard the sweater in favor of a mackinaw shirt.
1938 E. Hemingway Fifth Column (1939) 479 He wore..a mackinaw shirt.
3. mackinaw trout n. the North American lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > salmo ferox (lake-trout)
lake trout1661
laker1823
mackinaw trout1838
ferox1876
the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salvelinus > salvelinus namaycush (lake trout)
lake trout1661
Oswego bass1758
namaycush1775
siscowet1838
togue1839
touladi1846
lunge1851
Oswego1857
mackinaw trout1961
mackinaw1968
1838 J. P. Kirtland in 2nd Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Ohio 195 S[alvelinus] manycash [sic]. This name was applied to the Mackinaw trout... A few stragglers are occasionally taken in Lake Erie.
1840 Southern Literary Messenger 6 604/1 The celebrated Mackinaw trout, so called after the town, near which they are found, is generally caught by the hook.
1876 G. B. Goode Animal Resources U.S. 41 Lure-fish used in taking Mackinaw trout.
1961 Vancouver Sun 17 Aug. 23/1 The laker (mackinaw trout) is a record. Largest Canadian sport-caught lake char..is an 87 pounder.
1989 Encycl. Brit. VII. 110/1 Lake trout, also called mackinaw trout, Great Lakes trout, or salmon trout (Salvelinus namaycush).
II. Simple uses.
4.
a. A mackinaw blanket.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > blanket > blanket made for or by North American Indians
stroud1683
Indian blanket1714
pointed blanket1779
point blanket1783
mackinaw1836
Chilkat1890
Hudson Bay blanket1900
1836 in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1892) 2nd Ser. 7 276 Covering, a cotton counterpane, a sheet.., besides my own great coats and green Mackinaw.
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. iii. 28 My ‘Mackinaw’..makes my bed by night, and my great coat on other occasions.
1909 R. W. Service Ballads of Cheechako 114 We built our boats and we launched them... A packing-case for a bottom, a mackinaw for a sheet.
1936 Golden Jubilee Catal. (Sears, Roebuck & Co.) 499 95% Wool Mackinaw for Rough and Tumble Service... Strong, sturdy and warm as a mackinaw coat.
b. A heavy woollen cloth, now usually with a plaid design, from which mackinaw blankets and various articles of clothing are made. Also in plural: garments made of this cloth.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > heavy or thick
carpet1345
carpet-cloth1615
swan's-down1801
mackinaw1841
Petersham cloth1853
1841 Western Herald & Farmers' Mag. (Sandwich, Canada) 31 Mar. 3/2 They have also a large assortment of blankets..of the real Mackinaw.
1902 J. London Daughter of Snows 316 He was interrupted by a warm-complexioned man clad in faded mackinaws.
1910 R. W. Service Trail of '98 347 He was dressed in mackinaw, and wore a fur cap.
1920 S. Lewis Main St. xix. 230 He had given up..wearing red mackinaws in lumber-camps.
1946 B. Freedman & N. Freedman Mrs. Mike (1947) 59 The wet penetrated my heavy mackinaws.
1964 Atlantic Advocate July 77/1 William M...was operating the mill and producing a large red and black check design for Mackinaw or cruiser cloth.
c. A mackinaw coat or jacket.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jacket > thick
mackinaw1894
mackinaw coat1899
donkey jacket1929
1894 Munsey's Mag. Sept. 608/2 And now, donning his mackinaw, a ‘coat of many colors’,..the woodsman shoulders his axe and sallies forth.
1912 J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk. 28 Mackinaw, a heavy woolen cloth much in favour among lumberjacks. A lumberjack speaks of his thick winter jacket as his mackinaw.
1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel i. 101 A young man, his head and ears huddled into the collar of a mackinaw.
1973 D. MacKenzie Postscript to Dead Let. 9 He was..wearing a red-and-grey mackinaw over a shirt without a tie.
5. A mackinaw boat. Now chiefly historical.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > types of
sedge-boat1336
shout1395
scout1419
pink1471
punt-boatc1500
palander1524
pram1531
punt1556
bark1598
sword-pink1614
pont1631
schuit1666
pontoon1681
bateau1711
battoe1711
flight1769
scow1780
keel-boat1786
ferry flat1805
ark1809
panga1811
mackinaw boat1812
mudboat1824
pinkie1840
mackinaw1842
sharpie1860
sculling float1874
pass-boat1875
sled1884
scow sloop1885
sharp1891
johnboat1894
ballahoo1902
pram1929
goelette1948
1842 Southern Literary Messenger 8 586/2 A party of six..had occasion..to ascend the Missouri, in a Mackinaw [boat], with the purpose of trading.
1880 Scribner's Monthly May 124/1 All available space in the overladen mackinaws needed to be reserved for the indispensable whisky.
1923 W. L. Smith Pioneers of Old Ontario 264 The journey was made in mackinaws, open boats with a schooner rig.
1958 K. M. Wells Cruising Georgian Bay 29 That is why the fishermen of the old schooner and mackinaw days loved Tobermory.
1968 R. F. Adams Western Words (ed. 2) 187 The Mackinaw was a flat-bottomed boat with a pointed prow and a square stern... A large Mackinaw was as much as 50 or 60 feet long.
6. A mackinaw trout.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salvelinus > salvelinus namaycush (lake trout)
lake trout1661
Oswego bass1758
namaycush1775
siscowet1838
togue1839
touladi1846
lunge1851
Oswego1857
mackinaw trout1961
mackinaw1968
1968 Green River Star (Wyoming) 25 Jan. 7/6 The Mackinaw is an important fish in Wyoming, chiefly because of its size.
1994 Denver Post 30 Jan. c11/3 Aside from lake trout (mackinaws).., most trout die before they reach 4 pounds.

Derivatives

ˈmackinawed adj. rare wearing a mackinaw coat.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing clothing for body (and limbs) > wearing a jacket > types of
Eton-jacketed1888
blazered1931
tuxedoed1934
anoraked1960
mackinawed1960
1960 C. L. Cooper Scene vi. 159 The little cripple..pushed himself through the night... The tiny, twisted, childlike body..belied the wide mackinawed chest of a grown man.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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