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tikinagan [< Algonk.: Cree tikinakun]

• n. a thin, rectangular board to which a moss bag is fastened and in which infants are carried.

  See also: cradle-board  moss bag  

  • This word has been spelled in many ways, most of which are entered in the dictionary as cross-references.

  • 1860  (1956)  In fact, you may roll an Indian tikinagan over as much as you please, but the child cannot be injured.
  • 1941  Fished and caught nothing;
    While the young chieftain
    Tugged at her breasts
    Or slept in the lacings
    Of the warm tickanegan.
  • 1957  But snowshoes of birch wood and babiche, tikinaguns (cradle boards) and dry tanned moccasins will be seen for quite a while yet.
  • 1965  Four hundred men, women and children, including babies in tiknagans [sic] on their mothers' backs, moved through the neon-lighted streets of Kenora. . . .