Meaning of mishoon | Babel Free

Definitions

A dugout canoe.

Examples

“There were many mishoons beached there. We stepped ashore and at once heard the unholy commotion […]”

“The sky was a bruised purple, and a gusting wind enveloped them so that it was a struggle to keep the mishoon from getting swamped. The waves were immense, as big as English houses. They lifted the small boat upward[…]”

“[…] and it's easy to imagine how this mishoon will take shape (Fig. 8.2). Two more mishoonash are mostly sunken into the water at the edge of the Eel River Pond a few steps away; Kerri notes that because it can still freeze,[…]”

“They shifted in the mishoon, made room in the middle, and waved him on board, sitting ahead of Habbamock. There was only a single exchange crossing the marsh. “Why K-lib here?” Habbamock asked from behind him in the mishoon.”

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