Adirondackn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌadᵻˈrɒndak/, U.S.

/ˌædəˈrɑnˌdæk/

Inflections: Plural Adirondacks, (in sense A. 1, rare) unchanged;

Forms:

α. 1600s Rondax, 1600s–1700s Rondaxe (plural), 1700s Raarondacks (plural).

β. 1700s Adirondacks (plural), 1700s Adirondacs (plural), 1700s Adirondaks (plural), 1700s Adirondax (plural), 1800s– Aderondac, 1800s– Aderondack, 1800s– Aderondak (now rare), 1800s– Adirondac, 1800s– Adirondack, 1800s– Adirondak.

γ. 1700s Arondacs (plural), 1700s Arundacks (plural), 1700s Arundacs (plural), 1700s Arundax (plural), 1700s Iroondocks (plural), 1700s Oorondoks (plural), 1700s Ooronducks (plural), 1700s Orondack, 1700s Orondacks (plural), 1700s Orondocks (plural), 1700s Orundacks (plural), 1800s Orendakes (plural).

Origin: A borrowing from Mohawk. Etymons: Mohawk arón:taks; Mohawk atirón:taks.

Etymology: Partly (in α. and γ. forms) < Mohawk arón:taks Algonquin Indian, and partly (in β. forms) < the corresponding Mohawk plural form atirón:taks, literally ‘tree-eaters’, said to be an allusion to the practice of eating bark during periods of famine; also reported in a Dutch source (as aderondackx) as being the Mohawk word for the French or English (c1635).The Mohawk word is a collective noun derived from a verb phrase containing the verbal ending -s (serial aspect), which was early reinterpreted in English as representing the plural ending -s , giving rise in turn to an inferred singular. The α. forms show aphesis, which probably occurred in English.

A. n.

1. A member of the Algonquin people formerly living along the Ottawa River and its tributaries, in Ontario and Quebec. Also occasionally with the and plural agreement: this people collectively. Now historical.

ΚΠ

1699 Dekanissore Propositions 3 Feb. in Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1854) IV. 493 There were 300 of the Rondaxe that is Canada Indians at such a place and 300 at another place.

1701 Conf. Lieut.-Governor with Indians in Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1854) IV. 899 The names of the said seaven nations wee have made peace with are:..Karrihaet, Adirondax.

1727 C. Colden Hist. Five Indian Nations i. 3 At this time the Adirondacks were obliged to spread themselves far, because of the scarcity of the Game.

1780 G. Chalmers Polit. Ann. Present United Colonies xix. 586 When the French settled in Canada, during the year 1603, they found the Five nations..engaged in implacable warfare with the Adirondacks, the most powerful tribe in that country.

1821 F. Butler Compl. Hist. U.S.A. II. xx. 286 The Delawares had sometime before carried on a war with the Adirondacs who live on the northern side of the Lakes Erie, and Ontario.

1838 E. Emmons in Documents Assembly State of N.-Y. IV. No. 200. 243 It appears from historical records that the Adirondacks or Algonquins, in early times, held all the country north of the Mohawk, west of the Champain, south of the Lower Canada, and east of the St. Lawrence river, as their beaver hunting grounds.

1922 A. C. Parker Archeol. Hist. N.Y. I. iii. 156 The chief enemies of the Iroquois were the Adirondack, who later allied themselves with the Huron.

2007 J. M. Volo & D. D. Volo Family Life in Native Amer. ii. 30 The several nations resident in central New York at the time of European contact, known collectively as the Iroquois, were once a single people possibly subject to the Algonquian-speaking Adirondacks of the St. Lawrence Valley.

2. Usually in plural. With the. A range of mountains in north-eastern New York State.The name Adirondacks was proposed by geologist Ebenezer Emmons (see quot. 1838), citing the historical tradition that this region was formerly the hunting grounds of the people described in sense A. 1. See quots. 1838 at sense A. 1 and 1838 at sense B. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > range > other spec.

Mountains of the Moon1597

Carnic Alps1601

the Ghats1603

Pyreneans1768

Rocky Mountains1798

Balkans1802

Carnian Alps1802

Rockies1827

Carpathiana1832

Appalachians1834

Adirondack1838

keel1857

1838 E. Emmons in Documents Assembly State of N.-Y. IV. No. 200. 243 A correct idea of this central group of mountains, or the Adirondacks, as we shall hereafter call them, may be gathered from our profile view.

1899 World's Paper Trade Rev. 8 Sept. 11/2 The forest fires recently raging in the Adirondack are said to be almost beyond control.

1912 E. T. Seton Arctic Prairies xiii. 87 I saw a score of folk who had lived in the porcupiniest part of the Adirondacks for many summers and yet never saw a Porcupine.

1942 Sci. Monthly Jan. 32 As the ice increased in thickness, it encroached more and more on the flanks of the Adirondacks, till finally it overswept the whole.

2000 C. D. Whiteman Mountain Meteorol. ii. 14 The northern Appalachians, in contrast, are composed of less extensive clusters of mountains, including the Green Mountains of Vermont, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and the Catskills and Adirondacks of New York.

B. adj.

1. Designating the Algonquin people formerly living along the Ottawa River and its tributaries, in Ontario and Quebec; of or relating to this people.

ΚΠ

1699 R. Livingston Instructions 4 Feb. in Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1854) IV. 496 As for the French threatnings that there should be so many Rondax Indians lyeing in waite.., they know it to be false.

1829 A. Holmes Ann. Amer. (ed. 2) II. Index 557/1 Adirondack Indians.

1877 N. B. Sylvester Hist. Sketches Northern N.Y. & Adirondack Wilderness xxvii. 214 A band of Adirondack warriors took O-nos-qua, the sachem's youngest son, captive and hurried him off into their own country.

1905 Harper's Mag. Mar. 544 The famous Indian Trail—tiny, tortuous foot-path of the ancient Adirondack tribes, much travelled in the past, now well-nigh impossible of following and nearly obliterated.

2004 D. S. Burt Chronol. Amer. Lit. 173 The title poem concerns an Adirondack Indian legend about a widower who guards the man who killed his wife so that the murderer will not be able to find her in the spirit world.

2. Designating the Adirondacks (see sense A. 2); of, relating to, or characteristic of this region.

ΚΠ

1838 Documents Assembly State of N.-Y. IV. No. 200. 242 The cluster of mountains in the neighborhood of the Upper Hudson and Ausable rivers, I proposed to call the Adirondack Group, a name by which a well known tribe of Indians who once hunted here may be commemorated.

1864 Merchants' Mag. Oct. 335 That portion of the great wilderness of Northern New York lying in St. Lawrence County, on the Western slope of the Aderondac Mountains.

1910 Her Highness vi. 58 The Hammertons..are now on a world-girdling trip and a lease of their magnificent Adirondack home is procured by agents of the Princess.

1932 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 23 Nov. 7/6 A searchlight beam flung the voices of men across the Adirondack foothills last night in the first recorded experiment in long distance ‘narrowcasting’.

1990 Rock & Ice Mar.–Apr. 7/2 Mr. Nichols unfortunately misses the essence of Adirondack climbing.

2008 D. R. Williams Adirondack Hotels & Inns ii. 71 The parlor, typical of the big Adirondack hotels, had a piano, writing desks, comfortable chairs, and an Adirondack decor.

Compounds

Originally and chiefly North American.

Adirondack boat n. now chiefly historical a lightweight oared boat similar to a canoe, originally used by local guides to transport tourists on hunting and fishing expeditions in the Adirondack region.

ΚΠ

1869 W. H. H. Murray Adventures in Wilderness i. 27 It should be remembered that the Adirondack boats, while being models of lightness and speed, are small, and will not bear overloading.

1901 S. W. Carroll & E. Hart Around World III. 19 It is because of these sudden squalls, which are apt to arise, that the Adirondack boats are built as they are. They are very slender, round-bottomed little boats.

2000 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 9 Sept. c1 Adirondack Museum... Master paintings, Adirondack boats, historical artifacts, vintage photographs, [etc.].

Adirondack chair n. a type of garden chair, typically made from slatted wood and having flat, wide armrests and a seat which slants downwards towards a fan-shaped sloping back.In Canada this type of chair is usually called a Muskoka chair: see Muskoka chair n.

ΚΠ

1906 Jrnl. Outdoor Life Feb. 10/1 In an Adirondack chair in the morning, He reclines at ease till noon.

1945 Frederick (Maryland) Post 12 July 3/6 (advt.) Adirondack Chair. 3.98. Made from sturdy durable wood that is smoothly sanded. Seat and back sloped for real comfort. Wide restful arms.

2010 L. Darcy Heiress's Baby xiv. 137 They were seated side by side in two of the slope-backed wooden Adirondack chairs that the hotel grounds staff kept in scattered, inviting groups on terraces and decks and promenades all around the resort.

Adirondack guide boat n. = Adirondack boat n.

ΚΠ

1876 Forest & Stream 9 Mar. 74/3 One of the best makers of the Adirondack guide boat I know of is a man by the name of Chase.

1975 N.Y. Times 2 Feb. (Sports section) 17/5 A marvelous blend of beauty and utility, the Adirondack guideboat had its moment of glory in the latter part of the last century.

2009 H. J. Corwin Around Boonville ix. 121 (caption) Like a canoe, the Adirondack guide boat was tapered at both ends, but it was lighter and faster, and it was rowed rather than paddled.

Adirondack shelter n. an open-fronted shelter of a type traditionally built alongside hiking trails in the Adirondacks, typically made from wood and having a roof that slopes steeply backward; also occasionally Adirondack shelter-camp.

ΚΠ

1910 House & Garden June 230/2 The bench in our photograph of an Adirondack shelter camp might easily be built as an indoor settle to place in front of a fireplace.

1913 Papers & Proc. 35th Ann. Meeting Amer. Libr. Assoc. 390/2 A picnic lunch before a camp fire in a typical Adirondack shelter fragrant with fir balsam boughs.

1971 Boston Globe 17 Mar. 37/1 No more than 98 people can camp for the night, and will be restricted to the Adirondack shelters near Hermit Lake.

2003 J. W. Fears How to build Your Dream Cabin in Woods (new ed.) iv. 33 To have an Adirondack shelter that is comfortable year-round, you'll need to locate the open side of the shelter opposite to the direction of the prevailing winds.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	adirondack
释义	Adirondackn.adj. Brit. /ˌadᵻˈrɒndak/, U.S. /ˌædəˈrɑnˌdæk/ Inflections: Plural Adirondacks, (in sense A. 1, rare) unchanged; Forms: α. 1600s Rondax, 1600s–1700s Rondaxe (plural), 1700s Raarondacks (plural). β. 1700s Adirondacks (plural), 1700s Adirondacs (plural), 1700s Adirondaks (plural), 1700s Adirondax (plural), 1800s– Aderondac, 1800s– Aderondack, 1800s– Aderondak (now rare), 1800s– Adirondac, 1800s– Adirondack, 1800s– Adirondak. γ. 1700s Arondacs (plural), 1700s Arundacks (plural), 1700s Arundacs (plural), 1700s Arundax (plural), 1700s Iroondocks (plural), 1700s Oorondoks (plural), 1700s Ooronducks (plural), 1700s Orondack, 1700s Orondacks (plural), 1700s Orondocks (plural), 1700s Orundacks (plural), 1800s Orendakes (plural). Origin: A borrowing from Mohawk. Etymons: Mohawk arón:taks; Mohawk atirón:taks. Etymology: Partly (in α. and γ. forms) < Mohawk arón:taks Algonquin Indian, and partly (in β. forms) < the corresponding Mohawk plural form atirón:taks, literally ‘tree-eaters’, said to be an allusion to the practice of eating bark during periods of famine; also reported in a Dutch source (as aderondackx) as being the Mohawk word for the French or English (c1635).The Mohawk word is a collective noun derived from a verb phrase containing the verbal ending -s (serial aspect), which was early reinterpreted in English as representing the plural ending -s , giving rise in turn to an inferred singular. The α. forms show aphesis, which probably occurred in English. A. n. 1. A member of the Algonquin people formerly living along the Ottawa River and its tributaries, in Ontario and Quebec. Also occasionally with the and plural agreement: this people collectively. Now historical. ΚΠ 1699 Dekanissore Propositions 3 Feb. in Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1854) IV. 493 There were 300 of the Rondaxe that is Canada Indians at such a place and 300 at another place. 1701 Conf. Lieut.-Governor with Indians in Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1854) IV. 899 The names of the said seaven nations wee have made peace with are:..Karrihaet, Adirondax. 1727 C. Colden Hist. Five Indian Nations i. 3 At this time the Adirondacks were obliged to spread themselves far, because of the scarcity of the Game. 1780 G. Chalmers Polit. Ann. Present United Colonies xix. 586 When the French settled in Canada, during the year 1603, they found the Five nations..engaged in implacable warfare with the Adirondacks, the most powerful tribe in that country. 1821 F. Butler Compl. Hist. U.S.A. II. xx. 286 The Delawares had sometime before carried on a war with the Adirondacs who live on the northern side of the Lakes Erie, and Ontario. 1838 E. Emmons in Documents Assembly State of N.-Y. IV. No. 200. 243 It appears from historical records that the Adirondacks or Algonquins, in early times, held all the country north of the Mohawk, west of the Champain, south of the Lower Canada, and east of the St. Lawrence river, as their beaver hunting grounds. 1922 A. C. Parker Archeol. Hist. N.Y. I. iii. 156 The chief enemies of the Iroquois were the Adirondack, who later allied themselves with the Huron. 2007 J. M. Volo & D. D. Volo Family Life in Native Amer. ii. 30 The several nations resident in central New York at the time of European contact, known collectively as the Iroquois, were once a single people possibly subject to the Algonquian-speaking Adirondacks of the St. Lawrence Valley. 2. Usually in plural. With the. A range of mountains in north-eastern New York State.The name Adirondacks was proposed by geologist Ebenezer Emmons (see quot. 1838), citing the historical tradition that this region was formerly the hunting grounds of the people described in sense A. 1. See quots. 1838 at sense A. 1 and 1838 at sense B. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > range > other spec. Mountains of the Moon1597 Carnic Alps1601 the Ghats1603 Pyreneans1768 Rocky Mountains1798 Balkans1802 Carnian Alps1802 Rockies1827 Carpathiana1832 Appalachians1834 Adirondack1838 keel1857 1838 E. Emmons in Documents Assembly State of N.-Y. IV. No. 200. 243 A correct idea of this central group of mountains, or the Adirondacks, as we shall hereafter call them, may be gathered from our profile view. 1899 World's Paper Trade Rev. 8 Sept. 11/2 The forest fires recently raging in the Adirondack are said to be almost beyond control. 1912 E. T. Seton Arctic Prairies xiii. 87 I saw a score of folk who had lived in the porcupiniest part of the Adirondacks for many summers and yet never saw a Porcupine. 1942 Sci. Monthly Jan. 32 As the ice increased in thickness, it encroached more and more on the flanks of the Adirondacks, till finally it overswept the whole. 2000 C. D. Whiteman Mountain Meteorol. ii. 14 The northern Appalachians, in contrast, are composed of less extensive clusters of mountains, including the Green Mountains of Vermont, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and the Catskills and Adirondacks of New York. B. adj. 1. Designating the Algonquin people formerly living along the Ottawa River and its tributaries, in Ontario and Quebec; of or relating to this people. ΚΠ 1699 R. Livingston Instructions 4 Feb. in Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1854) IV. 496 As for the French threatnings that there should be so many Rondax Indians lyeing in waite.., they know it to be false. 1829 A. Holmes Ann. Amer. (ed. 2) II. Index 557/1 Adirondack Indians. 1877 N. B. Sylvester Hist. Sketches Northern N.Y. & Adirondack Wilderness xxvii. 214 A band of Adirondack warriors took O-nos-qua, the sachem's youngest son, captive and hurried him off into their own country. 1905 Harper's Mag. Mar. 544 The famous Indian Trail—tiny, tortuous foot-path of the ancient Adirondack tribes, much travelled in the past, now well-nigh impossible of following and nearly obliterated. 2004 D. S. Burt Chronol. Amer. Lit. 173 The title poem concerns an Adirondack Indian legend about a widower who guards the man who killed his wife so that the murderer will not be able to find her in the spirit world. 2. Designating the Adirondacks (see sense A. 2); of, relating to, or characteristic of this region. ΚΠ 1838 Documents Assembly State of N.-Y. IV. No. 200. 242 The cluster of mountains in the neighborhood of the Upper Hudson and Ausable rivers, I proposed to call the Adirondack Group, a name by which a well known tribe of Indians who once hunted here may be commemorated. 1864 Merchants' Mag. Oct. 335 That portion of the great wilderness of Northern New York lying in St. Lawrence County, on the Western slope of the Aderondac Mountains. 1910 Her Highness vi. 58 The Hammertons..are now on a world-girdling trip and a lease of their magnificent Adirondack home is procured by agents of the Princess. 1932 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 23 Nov. 7/6 A searchlight beam flung the voices of men across the Adirondack foothills last night in the first recorded experiment in long distance ‘narrowcasting’. 1990 Rock & Ice Mar.–Apr. 7/2 Mr. Nichols unfortunately misses the essence of Adirondack climbing. 2008 D. R. Williams Adirondack Hotels & Inns ii. 71 The parlor, typical of the big Adirondack hotels, had a piano, writing desks, comfortable chairs, and an Adirondack decor. Compounds Originally and chiefly North American. Adirondack boat n. now chiefly historical a lightweight oared boat similar to a canoe, originally used by local guides to transport tourists on hunting and fishing expeditions in the Adirondack region. ΚΠ 1869 W. H. H. Murray Adventures in Wilderness i. 27 It should be remembered that the Adirondack boats, while being models of lightness and speed, are small, and will not bear overloading. 1901 S. W. Carroll & E. Hart Around World III. 19 It is because of these sudden squalls, which are apt to arise, that the Adirondack boats are built as they are. They are very slender, round-bottomed little boats. 2000 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 9 Sept. c1 Adirondack Museum... Master paintings, Adirondack boats, historical artifacts, vintage photographs, [etc.]. Adirondack chair n. a type of garden chair, typically made from slatted wood and having flat, wide armrests and a seat which slants downwards towards a fan-shaped sloping back.In Canada this type of chair is usually called a Muskoka chair: see Muskoka chair n. ΚΠ 1906 Jrnl. Outdoor Life Feb. 10/1 In an Adirondack chair in the morning, He reclines at ease till noon. 1945 Frederick (Maryland) Post 12 July 3/6 (advt.) Adirondack Chair. 3.98. Made from sturdy durable wood that is smoothly sanded. Seat and back sloped for real comfort. Wide restful arms. 2010 L. Darcy Heiress's Baby xiv. 137 They were seated side by side in two of the slope-backed wooden Adirondack chairs that the hotel grounds staff kept in scattered, inviting groups on terraces and decks and promenades all around the resort. Adirondack guide boat n. = Adirondack boat n. ΚΠ 1876 Forest & Stream 9 Mar. 74/3 One of the best makers of the Adirondack guide boat I know of is a man by the name of Chase. 1975 N.Y. Times 2 Feb. (Sports section) 17/5 A marvelous blend of beauty and utility, the Adirondack guideboat had its moment of glory in the latter part of the last century. 2009 H. J. Corwin Around Boonville ix. 121 (caption) Like a canoe, the Adirondack guide boat was tapered at both ends, but it was lighter and faster, and it was rowed rather than paddled. Adirondack shelter n. an open-fronted shelter of a type traditionally built alongside hiking trails in the Adirondacks, typically made from wood and having a roof that slopes steeply backward; also occasionally Adirondack shelter-camp. ΚΠ 1910 House & Garden June 230/2 The bench in our photograph of an Adirondack shelter camp might easily be built as an indoor settle to place in front of a fireplace. 1913 Papers & Proc. 35th Ann. Meeting Amer. Libr. Assoc. 390/2 A picnic lunch before a camp fire in a typical Adirondack shelter fragrant with fir balsam boughs. 1971 Boston Globe 17 Mar. 37/1 No more than 98 people can camp for the night, and will be restricted to the Adirondack shelters near Hermit Lake. 2003 J. W. Fears How to build Your Dream Cabin in Woods (new ed.) iv. 33 To have an Adirondack shelter that is comfortable year-round, you'll need to locate the open side of the shelter opposite to the direction of the prevailing winds. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1699
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