Citations:neeskotting


 * 1898, Frederick Starr, American Indians, page 47:
 * Once I went out at night with some Indian boys of Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, "neeskotting." these boys have a good deal of Indian blood, but they dress, talk, and act in most ways just like white boys. I think neeskotting, however, is truly Indian. We rode down to the shore in an ox-cart, carrying lanterns with us. Each boy had a pole, at the end of which was firmly tied a cod-hook.
 * 1902, Journal of American Folklore, page 267:
 * The word weequashing, or wigwassing, would seem to be derived, with the English suffix -ing (compare the word neeskotting discussed above) ...
 * 1912, Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, The United States: Its Beginnings, Progress and Modern Development, volume 1, page 72:
 * the neeskotting and wigwassing of the New England coast. The hunter and trapper,


 * 1911, The Century Dictionary: The Century dictionary, page 7:
 * neeskotting (nēs'kot-ing), n. [Verbal n. of *neeskot, v., supposed to be from a noun *neeskot, an appar. perverted form of an Amerindian word which appears in Canadian F. as nigogue, < Micmac negok (Rand), the jaw of a salmon-spear, also the salmon-spear itself, used in taking fish at night with the aid of fire or torch.] The spearing, or rather gaffing, of fish in shallow water at night with the aid of a landern or torch, the 'spear' being a long pole with a hook at the end. Compare *weequashing. Fr. Starr, cited in Jour. Amer. Folk-lore, Oct.-Dec., 1902, p. 251.
 * [that is, in IPA: /ˈnis.kɑt.ɪŋ/]