a member of a Native N American people of the Mohawk river valley in New York State
the Iroquoian language of this people
(often mohawk) NAmer = Mohican (2)
(often mohawk) a turn in ice-skating from an edge of one foot to the same edge of the other foot in the opposite direction: compare Choctaw
Mohawk adj
[of Algonquian origin; related to Narraganset Mohowaùuck, literally ‘they eat living things’]