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Nipmuck
[ nip-muhk ]
noun
- a member of an Algonquian Indian people living in the vicinity of Worcester, Mass.
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Winslow, with the main body of the troops, advanced rapidly towards the Nipmuck country.
We frequently glean from diaries of the times hints of the pleasures of having a wild Nipmuck or Narragansett Indian as "help."
Amid his countless other labors he preached the gospel to the Indians of the Nipmuck country.
The Nipmuck Indians were a powerful tribe, consisting of many petty clans spread over the whole of the interior of Massachusetts.
The Nipmuck tribe, then quite powerful, occupied the region now included in the southeast corner of Worcester county.
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