Suckanhock

Suck´an`hock

A kind of seawan. See Note under Seawan.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in periodicals archive

Seawan or seawant was also the name of Indian shell money, of which there were two kinds as above mentioned--wompam, white; and Suckanhock, (from sucki) black.

"These terrible 30 or 40 hours": Washington at the Battle of Brooklyn in Whitman's "The Sleepers" and "Brooklyniana" manuscripts

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