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mowi(t)ch mowitz [< Chinook ,mow-wich; cf. Nootka muwich] B.C. 
1 n. a deer.
- c1846 (1849) Small deer . . . Wow-wich [sic]
- 1869 The deer made violent struggles for liberty, and the accused and a tillicum being near, they fired and shot the deer, thus enabling Mr. Herring to take the "mowitch" into his boat.
- 1915 Some times he would be hunting mowich (deer), or driving off the coyotes.
- 1964 [Headline] Mowich on Road Cause of Mishap.
2 n. the flesh of the deer used as food.
- 1958 . . . twelve hours a day in the saddle, mowitch and bannock to eat, a makeshift tent and blanketless bed. . . .
- 1963 . . . the good breakfast of fried mowitch and bannock [was] being cooked by Henry's klootch.
- c1846 (1849) Small deer . . . Wow-wich [sic]