pokelogann.
/ˌpɒkᵻˈləʊɡ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌpɑkəˈloʊɡ(ə)n/, Canadian English /ˌpɒkəˈloːɡ(ə)n/ U.S. regional (north-eastern) and Canadian (Maritime Provinces).
A stagnant backwater; a swamp adjacent to a river, lake, etc. Also figurative.
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1818 A. Lockwood Nova Scotia 98 At the head of this bay [sc. Mason's Bay, west of Point Lapreau], is good shelter in a place called Pok-logan.]
1848 H. D. Thoreau Ktaadn, & Maine Woods in Union Mag. Sept. 137/1 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.
1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature II. xiii. 404n Poke-loken, a marshy place, or stagnant pool, connected with a river.
1872 M. S. 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.
1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 43 Pokelogan, a bay or pocket into which logs may float off during a drive.
1971 in Dict. Amer. Reg. Eng. (2002) 244/1 In my fishing expeditions to the Maine Lakes I heard..little swampy places..called a pokelogan.
1981 Amer. Lit. 52 654 These give the critic his point d'appui by which to discover the heimlich in the unheimlich and allow him to penetrate the pokelogan of the ‘zero state’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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