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mocock makak, makuk, mokock, mokok, etc. [< Algonk.: Ojibwa makak] 
n. a box or container made of birchbark, often used to hold maple sugar, wild rice, berries, etc.
- 1748 [They now have by Trade from the Factories Brass Kettles by which they boil, otherwise they make use of Nockins, which are of Birch-Bark, take a square Piece, slash it at the four Corners some Way in, then there are four Sides which they can set up, and they sew together with a Rim, round the Top they put an Edge of Porcupine Quills, these they make of various Sizes.]
- 1779 (1791) We were reduced to a few fish and some wild rice, or menomen (which are kept in muccucks, or bark boxes), to support myself and seventeen men.
- 1804 (1933) Margoe sent a Mocock Sugar 70 lb Net.
- 1859 They make their mohcocks, or kettles, of birch-bark, in which they cook fish and game.
- 1923 The journey was made in mackinaws,--open boats with a schooner rig, and the sugar was carried in mococks,--containers made of birch bark, each holding from twenty to thirty pounds.
- 1951 There was a small makuk of sugar also. . . .
- 1748 [They now have by Trade from the Factories Brass Kettles by which they boil, otherwise they make use of Nockins, which are of Birch-Bark, take a square Piece, slash it at the four Corners some Way in, then there are four Sides which they can set up, and they sew together with a Rim, round the Top they put an Edge of Porcupine Quills, these they make of various Sizes.]