Definition of "klootchman" []

• Woman, wife (especially if Native American). (noun)

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• "As she beached, I greeted her with extended eager hands to assist her ashore, for the klootchman is getting to be an old woman; albeit she paddles against tide-water like a boy in his teens."
• "They were friends until Peter got married, and then the trouble began, because they both wanted the same klootchman."
• "Unless it be that the more voluptuous Indian works every day of his weary, aimless life, spends nothing, and hoards the residual balance like a miser, lives on the old man before marriage, and on his klootchman after, we are unable to arrive at a solution."