U.S. Obs. rare. Also 7 isquouter, squonter-. [ad. Narragansett Indian asquutasquash: see SQUASH sb.2] A squash.
1634. W. Wood, New Eng. Prosp., 67. In Summer, when their [sc. the Indians’] corne is spent, Isquouter squashes is their best bread, a fruite like a young Pumpion.
1672. Josselyn, New Eng. Rarities, 57. Squashes, but more truly Squontere-squashes, a kind of Mellon, or rather Gourd.
1705. R. Beverley, Virginia, II. iv. (1722), 124. The Clypeatæ are sometimes call’d Cymnels…, from the Lenten Cake of that Name, which many of them very much resemble. Squash, or Squanter-Squash, is their Name among the Northern Indians, and so they are call’d in New-York and New-England.
