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muskimoot mask imute, musk emoot, musk ymoot, etc. [< Algonk.: Cree]

• n. a fairly large bag made of netted babiche (def. 1), often used by hunters to carry game. [See picture at muskimoot.]

  See also: babiche (def. 1)  

  • 1791  [English Bag Algonkin Maskimout Chippeway Muchcomat]
  • 1803  (1897)  [It was] loaded with his private baggage, cassetêtes, bags, kettles, and mashqueminctes.
  • 1896  (1898)  They could see that I had a little flour, a luxury the last pound of which had been consumed at that post months before, and I heard them speculating as to the probability of the various muskimoots containing tea and tobacco.
  • 1909  The fancy bag in which you carry your calling cards and little friendly gifts up here is a "musky-moot"; the more formidable receptacle, which gives your friends warning that you may stay a day or two, is a "skin-ichi-mun."
  • 1913  Especially noteworthy are the muskemoots . . . made of babiche.