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montauk

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Mon·tauk   (mŏn'tôk')   
n.   pl. Montauk or Mon·tauks
    1. A Native American people formerly inhabiting the eastern end of Long Island in New York.

    2. A member of this people.

  1. The Algonquian language of the Montauk, dialectally related to Mohegan and Pequot.

  2. A member of any of various Algonquian peoples of eastern and central Long Island connected with the Montauk.


[From a place name of Montauk origin.]
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