Mohawks
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Mo·hawk 1
(mō′hôk′)n. pl. Mohawk or Mo·hawks
1. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting northeast New York along the Mohawk and upper Hudson Valleys north to the St. Lawrence River, with present-day populations chiefly in southern Ontario and extreme northern New York. The Mohawk were the easternmost member of the Iroquois confederacy.
2. The Iroquoian language of the Mohawk.
[Narragansett Mohowaúg.]
Mo·hawk 2
(mō′hôk′)n. pl. Mo·hawks
A hairstyle in which the scalp is shaved except for an upright strip of hair that runs across the crown of the head from the forehead to the nape of the neck.
[After Mohawk.]
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Mohawks
A native North American people, a tribe of the Iroquois, originally living along the Mohawk River.
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