Definition of: Mohawk

(mō′hôk) noun
1. One of a tribe of North American Indians of Iroquoian stock, one of the original tribes of the Five Nations, formerly ranging from the Mohawk River Valley, New York, to the St. Lawrence: now in Canada, New York, and Wisconsin.
2. The Iroquoian language of this tribe.
3. A Mohock. [<N. Am. Ind. Cf. Narragansett mohowaicuck, lit., they eat animate things, hence, eaters of human flesh; so named by enemy tribes.]