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ponask poonask [< Algonk.: Cree] 
v. cook game or fish by splitting it and holding it on a stick or spit over an open fire.
See also: ponasking
- 1922 As we had no kettle . . . we were forced to "ponask" the fish on a pointed stick before a bright fire.
- 1934 She had, therefore, taken the heart, impaled it on a stick, and ponasked it as one would roast a duck.
- 1963 While the kettles would be boiling their meat, they [Indians] would be "Poonasking" strips of meat and delicacies like leg-bones in front of the fire. . . .
- 1922 As we had no kettle . . . we were forced to "ponask" the fish on a pointed stick before a bright fire.