Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
kinnikinick .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
kinnikinic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
kinnikinic .
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Examples
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With a soft, rustling sound the light craft parted the low hanging branches of killikinick and diamond willow, and buried its nose in the soft mud.
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Calmly and coolly we smoked our killikinick, and surveyed the embarkation of troops, construing it to be some grand manoeuvre of military strategy.
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In a letter to his mother he states that besides provisions and mining tools, their load consisted of certain luxuries viz., ten pounds of killikinick, Watts's Hymns, fourteen decks of cards, Dombey and Son, a cribbage-board, one small keg of lager-beer, and the "Carmina Sacra."
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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In a letter to his mother he states that besides provisions and mining tools, their load consisted of certain luxuries viz., ten pounds of killikinick, Watts's Hymns, fourteen decks of cards, Dombey and Son, a cribbage-board, one small keg of lager-beer, and the "Carmina Sacra."
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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In a letter to his mother he states that besides provisions and mining tools, their load consisted of certain luxuries viz., ten pounds of killikinick, Watts’s Hymns, fourteen decks of cards, Dombey and Son, a cribbage-board, one small keg of lager-beer, and the “Carmina Sacra.”
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