mocotaugan [< Algonk.: Cree] Obs. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
n.
a wood-working knife usually having a crooked handle and, often, a hook at one end of the blade, used widely in the north, especially by the Indians, for making snowshoes, fur stretchers, canoes, and all woodwork. [See picture at crooked knife.]
See also: crooked knife (and picture)