Skagit

[ skag-it ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural Skag·its, (especially collectively) Skag·it

a member of a Lushootseed-speaking Indigenous people of Washington State: divided into the Upper Skagit and Lower Skagit tribes.
a river flowing from the Canadian Cascade Mountains to Puget Sound in Washington State. 158.5 miles (255 km) long.

Origin of Skagit¹

First recorded in 1860–65, referring to the people; from Lushootseed sqaǰət

But as shown by the collapse of the Skagit bridge, which carries 67,000 vehicles each day, a bridge can fail without warning.

On the head waters of Skagit river there are tracts of land that will support from three to four hundred homesteads.

In 1906 he wrote the narrative part of a history of Skagit and Snohomish counties.

At noon that day in the Skagit Valley, we found our first civilization, a camp where a man was cutting cedar blocks for shingles.

I remember a ragged old trapper, lately come over the mountains from the Skagit River.

Seeking out the cabin he had built on the Skagit River, he resumed his residence there, solitary and somber.

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