cawquaw
English edit
Etymology edit
From Cree kâkwa / ᑳᑲᐧ (kaakay, “porcupine”).
Noun edit
cawquaw (plural not attested)
- (rare, possibly dated) A Canadian porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum).
- 1872, Samuel Orchart Beeton, Beeton's Brave tales, bold ballads, and travels and perils, page 540:
- The Cawquaw or Urson of North America also inhabits trees. It has not, however, a prehensile tail, that member being merely used as a weapon of offence, the short, sharp quills witb which it is armed sticking in the wounds […]