Playing tricks, usually in Indian garb.
1825. Does he ever go out ‘a mohawking’?—John Neal, ‘Brother Jonathan,’ i. 227. It was a party of these counterfeit Mohawks that boarded the East India ships in Boston Harbour.—Id., 228.
*** The so-called “Mohocks” were one of the pests of London about 1710–20. See Lecky’s ‘England in the Eighteenth Century.’
