Q: "lanechtskipt"

[Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock]

I see it as 'black and whight bare' (?)


On Nov 10, 2013, at 8:57 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

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> Does anyone have a guess at what "lanechtskipt" means, and in what language?
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> It appears in Boston city records in 1735, and seemingly no place
> else, listed as an animal that was exhibited earlier along with a
> "lyon" and a "black and whight hare".
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> Google Web and Books yield several hits, all deriving from the same
> source. (See, for example, Justin Winsor, _Memorial History of
> Boston_, 2:480 n. 3.)
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> Google Translate "detects" Haitian Creole, but does not attempt a translation.
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> Joel
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