tussuck

“Having penetrated a considerable distance into this, and found a tussuck on which we could deposit our loads, though there was no place to sit, my companion went back for the rest of his pack.”

The Maine Woods

“Occasionally he will encounter a turtle selecting the choicest morsels, or a musk-rat resting on a tussuck.”

Excursions

“We liked for awhile bounding from tussuck to tussuck, or resting on a green esker in the domain of the old academicians of Grattan's time; but 'tis pleasanter, after all, to tread the firm ground of our own archæologists.”

Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry