Meaning of tuckahoe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The edible root of a plant of species Peltandra virginica, used by Native Americans of colonial-era Virginia.
   countable, uncountable
2. A person, especially if poor and malnourished (or if implied to be), living east of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.
   US, Virginia, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncommon, uncountable
3. The sclerotium of wood-decay fungi of species Wolfiporia extensa, used by Native Americans and the Chinese as food and as a herbal medicine.
   countable, uncountable
4. The flowering plant Orontium aquaticum.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“In June, July, and August, they feed⟳ upon the rootes of Tockwough berries, fish⟳, and greene wheat.”

“The ponderous beast had spent the summer eating tuckahoe roots, the autumn eating acorns and nuts, and was now as heavy as two stout men.”

“[…] at least until you either get⟳ poor Tuckahoe out of his present⟳ hobble, in furnishing so many strong suspicions against the sincerity of his former professions of patriotism, […]”

“The poor Tuckahoe, however, when he purchased land⟳ in Washington County, or the Shenandoah, or in Rowan, seems to have⟳ left behind him, not only his worn-out fields and his tumbledown house, but his wasteful methods.”

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