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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
island off Massachusetts, early forms include Natocke, Nantican, Nautican; from an obscure southern New England Algonquian word, perhaps meaning "in the middle of waters." Related: Nantucketer.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 3650
Land area (2000): 2.461687 sq. miles (6.375740 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.416475 sq. miles (3.668652 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.878162 sq. miles (10.044392 sq. km)
FIPS code: 43755
Located within: Massachusetts (MA), FIPS 25
Location: 41.281520 N, 70.100425 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 02554
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Nantucket
Housing Units (2000): 9210
Land area (2000): 47.809817 sq. miles (123.826853 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 255.828135 sq. miles (662.591799 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 303.637952 sq. miles (786.418652 sq. km)
Located within: Massachusetts (MA), FIPS 25
Location: 41.276758 N, 70.090890 W
Headwords:
Nantucket, MA
Nantucket County
Nantucket County, MA
Wikipedia
Nantucket is an island about south of Cape Cod, in the American state of Massachusetts. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town of Nantucket, and the conterminous Nantucket County, which are consolidated. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,172, though many citizens believe the population has risen to about 20,000 including people out of the census. Part of the town is designated the Nantucket CDP, or census-designated place. The region of Surfside on Nantucket is the southernmost settlement in Massachusetts.
The name "Nantucket" is adapted from similar Algonquian names for the island, perhaps meaning "faraway land or island".
Nantucket is a tourist destination and summer colony. Due to tourists and seasonal residents, the population of the island increases to at least 50,000 during the summer months. In 2008, Forbes magazine cited Nantucket as having home values among the highest in the US. Home prices per square foot are considered much higher than those in the Hamptons on Long Island
The National Park Service cites Nantucket, designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1966, as being the "finest surviving architectural and environmental example of a late 18th- and early 19th-century New England seaport town".
Nantucket is a Southern rock band formed in Jacksonville, North Carolina in 1969. Originally known as a Beach music band named Stax of Gold, and later Nantucket Sleighride (after the song and album by Mountain), the six-member group—Tommy Redd, Larry Uzzell, Mike Uzzell, Eddie Blair, Kenny Soule, and Mark Downing—first became successful in their home state of North Carolina as a cover band.
Nantucket may refer to:
- Nantucket, Massachusetts, an island, town and county in Massachusetts
- Nantucket (CDP), Massachusetts
- Nantucket Sound, a section of water along the coast of Massachusetts
- New Nantucket, the former name for Baker Island in the Pacific Ocean
- USS Nantucket, the name of four different US Navy ships
- United States lightship Nantucket (LV-112)
- Nantucket (ship), an 1837 whaleship
- Nantucket Sleighride, the event when a boat from a whaling whip is towed at high speed by a harpooned whale
- Nantucket Sleighride (album), an album and its title song by the hard rock band Mountain
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Nantucket (band), a hard rock band from North Carolina
- Nantucket (album), an album by hard rock band Nantucket
- Nantucket V, an album by hard rock band Nantucket
- The Best Of Nantucket, a compilation album by hard rock band Nantucket
- Nantucket series, a set of alternate history books written by S. M. Stirling.
- Nantucket Nectars, a beverage company
- Nantucket Corporation, the company that developed Clipper and sold it to Computer Associates
- " There once was a man from Nantucket", the opening line for many limericks
Nantucket is the debut release by North Carolina music group, Nantucket. It includes the hit single "Heartbreaker", which helped this album make the Billboard charts and sell around 200,000 copies. Other featured songs include "She's No Good", "Born in a Honky Tonk", "Girl, You Blew a Good Thing" and "Quite Like You". Norton Buffalo from the Steve Miller Band has a harp (harmonica) solo on the song "Never Gonna Take Your Lies". Nantucket was released on compact disc by re-issue label Wounded Bird Records in 2003.
The Nantucket was a sidewheel steamer operating as a ferry serving the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket during the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. On the Vineyard it docked at Cottage City (later Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts), Vineyard Haven, and the West Chop Wharf.
The Nantucket, a 629-ton vessel, was built in 1886 in Wilmington, Delaware for service with the New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket Steamboat Co. fleet, later reorganized as the Steamship Authority.
According to a 1961 Vineyard Gazette article, the Nantucket "had decorated paddleboxes that made large, rhythmic and beautiful half-circles on the sides."
Nantucket measured 190 feet long with a beam of 33 feet. It was copper fastened, and its double frame made of oak, hackmatack and cedar. Its hull had three watertight bulkheads, and drew four-and-a-half feet of water.
A new ferry, the M/V Nantucket, was built in 1974 and named after this old sidewheeler.
Usage examples of "nantucket".
This school too she gave up for the position of librarian of the Nantucket Atheneum, which office she held for nearly twenty years.
Now in our little town of Nantucket, with our little Atheneum, these volumes are in constant demand.
And if Hesione had been talking about recognizing Lafitte, I think the folks at the Nantucket, or one of her neighbors, would have overheard some of it.
Yet, this wild hint seemed inferentially negatived, by what a grey Manxman insinuated, an old sepulchral man, who, having never before sailed out of Nantucket, had never ere this laid eye upon wild Ahab.
What kind of a sleighride, in the good old winter time, is a a Nantucket sleigh ride?
And where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobblestones--so goes the story-- to throw at the whales, in order to discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit?
No small number of these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the outward bound Nantucket whalers frequently touch to augment their crews from the hardy peasants of those rocky shores.
I submitted all this to my friends Simeon Macey and Charley Coffin, of Nantucket, both messmates of mine in a certain voyage, and they united in the opinion that the reasons set forth were altogether insufficient.
Macy pro-vides this definition of awalk: “Araised platform on the roof of many old Nantucket houses, from which to look off to the sea.
Unknown to Pollard, only a few weeks earlier, on September 29, the Nantucket whaleships Equator and Balaena stopped at the Hawaiian island of Oahu for the first time.
Eddy and Pam spent a few weeks at the Bergs' Palm Beach house when no one else was there, and a few weeks out of season at a half-deserted inn on Nantucket.
The boat gathered way, heading for the riding lights of the Yare where she stood out from Nantucket Town's breakwaters.
Throughout the Pacific, and also in Nantucket, and New Bedford, and Sag Harbor, you will come across lively sketches of whales and whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm Whale-teeth, or ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and other like skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous little ingenious contrivances they elaborately carve out of the rough material, in their hours of ocean leisure.
Throughout the Pacific, and also in Nantucket, and New Bedford, and Sag Harbor, you will come across lively sketches of whales and whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm Whale-teeth, or ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and other like skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous little ingenious contrivances they elaborately carve out of the rough material, in their hours of ocean leisure.
Boatsteerers, su perb athletes with prospects of lucrative captaincies, were considered the most eligible of Nantucket bachelors.