Also 8 queeque-, 9 quicke-. [An adaptation of the Cree (Indian) name, given by Richardson as okeecoohagees or -gew, by Watkins (1865), as kwekwukao; from other Algonquin dialects come the forms CARCAJOU and KINKAJOU.] The wolverene.
1743. M. Catesby, Nat. Hist., I. xxx. The quickhatch … has not been observed by any author, or known in Europe, till the year 1737, one was sent to Sir Hans Sloane.
1744. A. Dobbs, Countries Adjacent to Hudson’s Bay, 40. The beavers have three enemies, man, otters, and the carcajou or queequehatch.
1829. J. Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Americana, I. 42. The European labourers in the service of the Hudson’s Bay Company term it Quickehatch.
