English

Noun

cawquaw ‎(plural not attested)

1. (rare, possibly dated) A Canadian porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum).
   • 1872, Samuel Orchart Beeton, Beeton's Brave tales, bold ballads, and travels and perils, page 540:

     The Cawquaw or Urson of North America also inhabits trees. It has not, however, a prehensile tail, that member being merely used as a weapon of offence, the short, sharp quills witb which it is armed sticking in the wounds […]