Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In the western United States, a saddle-blanket made of the skin of a buffalo-calf.
Wiktionary
- n. A saddle-blanket, a saddle blanket.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a saddle blanket made of buffalo hide
Etymologies
- From an Algonquian language for "something to sit on"; compare Cree ᐊᐢᐹᐃᐧᑲᓀᐦᐃᑲᐣ (aspâwikanêhikan, "saddle blanket"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As I was hidden by a tree, the wolf approached the fire within a few feet, and was soon tugging away at an apishamore or saddle-cloth of buffalo calfskin which lay on the ground.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘apishamore’.
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Words from Blood Meridian
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Horse of a different color
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Blood Meridian: The Words
Words from Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian"
argosy, ossuary, thaumaturge, devonian, ristras, chartvail, catafalque, suzerain, argonauts, unrectified, surbated, pyrolatrous and 86 more...
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Ecology
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Because I like them: A -- B
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Words of Blood Meridian
"Toadvine looked at him. The necklace of human ears he wore looked like a string of dried black figs. He was big and raw-looking and one eyelid sagged where a knife had severed the small muscles th...
apishamore, scullery, hewer, leonids, kitchenhouse, washpot, husbandman, bottomland, flatboat, boatswain, pesthouse, coastwise and 29 more...
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short-term parking
A halfway home for new words until they find their true list.
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