NANTICOKE


Meaning of NANTICOKE in English

/nan"ti kohk'/ or, for 1, /-koh'/ , n.

1. a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Erie. 19,816.

2. a city in E Pennsylvania. 13,044.

/nan"ti kohk'/ , n. , pl. Nanticokes , ( esp. collectively ) Nanticoke .

1. a member of an extinct North American Indian people who inhabited Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.

2. the Algonquian language of the Nanticoke.

3. a member of a group of people of southern Delaware of mixed white, black, and Indian ancestry.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .