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Webster 1913 Edition

Mackinaw

{

Mack′i-naw blan′ket

,

Mack′i-naw

. }

[From

Mackinac

, the State of Michigan, where blankets and other stores were distributed to the Indians.]

1.

A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States.

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