What is "mocassin"

Usage examples of "mocassin".

In addition to these proper names we have from the Indians wigwam, squaw, hammock, tomahawk, canoe, mocassin, hominy, etc.

It was a wild, forsaken road, now winding through dreary pine barrens, where the wind whispered mournfully, and now over log causeways, through long cypress swamps, the doleful trees rising out of the slimy, spongy ground, hung with long wreaths of funeral black moss, while ever and anon the loathsome form of the mocassin snake might be seen sliding among broken stumps and shattered branches that lay here and there, rotting in the water.

It is but a trifle, and yet it may serve to make a pair of mocassins or a pouch.

A rude suit of fringed hide with caribou-skin mocassins might have been the fellow to the one which Amos Green was wearing, but the gleam of a gold chain from his belt, the sparkle of a costly ring upon his finger, and the delicate richly-inlaid musket which he carried, all gave a touch of grace to his equipment.

The clothing of these urchins was of the lightest possible description consistent with decency, and mocassins seemed to be the prevailing fashion.

Their icebound mocassins were sadly worn by much travel, and the sharp ice of the river jams had cut them to rags.

Every foot of ground between the spot where Hook had landed his forces and the home under the trees was stealthily examined by braves wearing their mocassins with the heels in front.

We asked him about wigwams, and wampum, and mocassins, and beavers, but he did not seem to know, or else he was shy about talking of the wonders of his native land.

Aidan was wearing a striped T-shirt, jeans, and mocassins with no socks.

But when Pathfinder heard the sound of mocassined feet and the rustling of brush at the foot of the building, he knew that the attempt to build a fire against the logs was about to be renewed.

My left foot fell flat, but under the soft sole of my right mocassin I felt something alive, heaving or rolling.