Mishoon
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mishoon is a noun meaning A dugout canoe.
Meaning
A dugout canoe.
Example Sentences
There were many mishoons beached there. We stepped ashore and at once heard the unholy commotion […]
The sky was a bruised purple, and a gusting wind enveloped them so that it was a struggle to keep the mishoon from getting swamped. The waves were immense, as big as English houses. They lifted the small boat upward[…]
They shifted in the mishoon, made room in the middle, and waved him on board, sitting ahead of Habbamock. There was only a single exchange crossing the marsh. “Why K-lib here?” Habbamock asked from behind him in the mishoon.
[…] and it's easy to imagine how this mishoon will take shape (Fig. 8.2). Two more mishoonash are mostly sunken into the water at the edge of the Eel River Pond a few steps away; Kerri notes that because it can still freeze,[…]
Word Forms
- mishoons
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include monoxyle, periagua, mokoro, birch, dugout, dug-out.
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