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Keewatin [< Algonk. (Cree)]

• 1 n. the North Wind.

• 2a n. Hist. a large territory of the Northwest (def. la), lying west and south of Hudson Bay.

  See also: Northwest (def. 1a)  

• 2b n. Hist. since 1912 (modified in 1920), the most easterly of the three Northwest Territories. See 1958 quote.

• 3 n. Hist. a proposed name for the province of Manitoba.