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chained_bear commented on the word naumkeag
"The native New Englanders were Naumkeag of the Massachusetts nation. Naumkeag, a word meaning "fishing place," was their name for the region. The Naumkeag made line and nets from vegetable fibers and hooks from bones. In addition to catching cod and other fish that approached the coastline, they harpooned six-foot-long sturgeons in the rivers, caught eels, and delighted in the clams they harvested from the shore."
—Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (New York: Penguin, 1997), 69
July 15, 2009
oroboros commented on the word naumkeag
To buff a shoe bottom prior to finishing. --heard on NPR's Says You
January 7, 2012