musquash

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Noun

musquash (plural musquashes)

1. The muskrat, Ondatra zibethicus. [from 17th c.]
   • 1634, William Wood, New Englands Prospect, I:

     Thirdly, Muſquaſhes, which be much like a Beaver for ſhape, but nothing neare ſo bigge […].

Synonyms

• squash (obsolete)

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