An imaginary animal, called in Maine a side-winder or side-hill badger.—‘Dial. Notes,’ iii. 249.
1849. The ‘Prock’—that remarkable western animal, which has two short legs on one side and two long ones on the other, to enable him to ‘keep his perpendicular’ while grazing or browsing on the sides of steep mountains.—Knick. Mag., xxxiii. 363 (April). (Italics in the original.)
1858. The first person who made mention of ‘The Prock,’ although not by name, was Captain Jonathan Carver,… in whose book the name of Oregon was first given to the river now known as the Columbia.—Id., lii. 313. [This reference is of course a hoax.]
