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Definitions
perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries
Word origin
From Powhatan tockawhoughe. The "person" sense implies that such a person was so poor as to be reduced to eating the root.
Used in a sentence
“In June, July, and August, they feed upon the rootes of Tockwough berries, fish, and greene wheat.”
“The ponderous beast had spent the summer eating tuckahoe roots, the autumn eating acorns and nuts, and was now as heavy as two stout men.”
“[…] at least until you either get poor Tuckahoe out of his present hobble, in furnishing so many strong suspicions against the sincerity of his former professions of patriotism, […]”
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