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kasagea kashogiak, kossegear, kussegear [< Esk.; cf. Barrow Esk. gasigiaq]

n. a small seal, Phoca vitulina, common on the East Coast.
See also: harbo(u)r seal
- 1852 Spotted seal kassigi-ak.
- 1864 The skins were of a kind of seals called by the natives kus-se-gear, which has softer hair than some other species, and visits salt and fresh water alike.
- 1882 The finest quality of kossegear skins I have seen were killed in Hudson's Strait.
- 1942 When the inlanders hunt kasagea in summer, they lie in ambush and shoot those animals that come to sun on shore.