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Definition of Mackinaw

1. Noun. A short plaid coat made of made of thick woolen material.

2. Noun. A thick plaid blanket formerly used in the northwestern United States.

3. Noun. A flat-bottomed boat used on upper Great Lakes.

4. Noun. A heavy woolen cloth heavily napped and felted, often with a plaid design.

Definition of Mackinaw

1. Noun. A heavy, woolen cloth. ¹

2. Noun. A blanket made of wool formerly distributed to the Amerindians by the U.S. government. ¹

3. Noun. A cargo boat, with a large flat bottom and sharp ends, formerly used on the Great Lakes and the Missouri River (to a lesser extent, elsewhere). ¹

4. Noun. A schooner-rigged boat once used on the Great Lakes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mackinaw

1. a woolen fabric [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mackinaw

mack daddy mackayite mackayites macked mackerel mackerel bird mackerel birds mackerel scad mackerel shad mackerel shark

mackerel sharks mackerel sky mackereler mackerelers mackerels mackinaw (current term) mackinaw boat mackinaw boats mackinaw coat mackinaw coats

mackinaw jacket mackinaw jackets mackinaw skiff mackinaw skiffs mackinaw trout mackinaw trouts mackinawed mackinawite mackinawites mackinaws

Literary usage of Mackinaw

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"mackinaw, or MACKINAC, an island 3 miles long by 2 broad, in the Strait of mackinaw, which connects Lakes Huron and Michigan; here is mackinaw village and ..."

2. General History of the State of Michigan: With Biographical Sketches by Charles Richard Tuttle (1873)
"That was Fort mackinaw. Active steps were soon taken to dispossess the English of this stronghold, and drive them wholly from the American soil. ..."

3. The History of Minnesota: From the Earliest French Explorations to the by Edward Duffield Neill (1858)
"They started to return with him, but learning that they would be arrested at mackinaw, for violation of law, they ran away. While at the villages of the ..."

4. The History of the United States: From Their Colonization to the End of the by George Tucker (1857)
"An expedition was set on foot against Fort mackinaw, and on the seventeenth of July ... General Hull arrived at Detroit on. the fifth of July, and mackinaw, ..."

5. The Traverse Region, Historical and Descriptive, with Illustrations of (1884)
"The village of mackinaw City stands upon historic ground, and the events which gave this point a conspicuous place in history have been narrated upon ..."

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